RewriteRule and enabling pcre UTF-8 mode

[Haim Ashkenazi <haim.ashkenazi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I'm having a problem matching a single character in case of UTF8 characters (hebrew in my case).Â

With rewrite rule (sorry for the hebrew in the example, but whenever you see '?' it's a sign that it's not good :):

• RewriteRule ^/users/(.)(.*) /users/$1/$2 [L]

when going toÂ/users/××××××

I see in the logs:

go-ahead with /var/www/html/users/?/?××××× [OK]Â

After searching the pcre docs, I've found that I have to enable UTF-8 mode. In nginx I can do it like this:

rewrite (*UTF8)^/users/(.)(.*) users/$1/$2 last;

But the (*UTF8) syntax causes a syntax error in httpd 2.2.3 (CentOS 5.x).

Any ideas how to enable UTF-8 mode in RewriteRule?

Thanks in advance

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Haim