You cannot use special characters directly in URLs.
RFC 1738 contains the following paragraph:
URLs are written only with graphics printed characters US-ASCII encoded character set.
The list of characters in the US-ASCII character set can be found at http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ascii.html .
, , , "=" "&". . ( , US-ASCII) %, .
codeigniter urlencode(). , (urlencode (http://test.com/ä)), http://test.com/%E4, URL.
, urldecode(), :
echo 'The character is: ' . urldecode($this->uri->segment(2));
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Dan