please help me in strange character in the URL

[IMMaster]

Hi all
Please I'm running an Arabic VB forum
when you choose any thread it gives you in the URL
like this

http://uaesoug.com/forumdisplay.php?88-%CE%CF%E3%C7%CA-%E6%CA%D3%E5%ED%E1%C7%CA-%E6%E3%ED%D2%C7%CA-%E3%E4%CA%CF%EC-%D3%E6%DE-%C7%E1%C5%E3%C7%D1%C7%CA

please how I can make it normal

like this : http://uaesoug.com/forumdisplay?من -الذي -كتب -هذا المقال
as normal
please help me :confused:

[montsa007]

May want to read these
https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/270285-Foreign-characters-replacement
https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/108943-Special-Characters-quot-and-replaced-by-marks

I don't speak or understand arabic so I don't know what your forum or that URL means, hopefully these 2 thread urls I posted (if read carefully) should help.

[IMMaster]

still didn't find the answer even after reading montsa007 post

[kh99]

please how I can make it normal

like this : http://uaesoug.com/forumdisplay?من -الذي -كتب -هذا المقال
as normal
please help me :confused:

I did a search and found that only certain characters are allowed in a url without being encoded - a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and some punctuation. So unfortunately is seems that unencoded arabic characters are not allowed.

Edit: ...however, there's also something called an IRI that does allow other characters, but I don't really understand it.

[IMMaster]

I did a search and found that only certain characters are allowed in a url without being encoded - a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and some punctuation. So unfortunately is seems that unencoded arabic characters are not allowed.

OK I have found some forums have
like this
http://xxxx.com/showthread.php?t=211904

How can I change all these srange characters to the same as this( in red)

[kh99]

In the adminCP settings, under "Friendly URLs", set URL Type to "Standard URLs".

[IMMaster]

Thanks kh99