Why is “®” being rendered as “®” without the bounding semicolon

Question

I\'ve been running into a problem that was revealed through our Google adwords-driven marketing campaign. One of the standard parameters used is \"region\". When a user se

Answer 1

Here is a simple solution and it may not work in all instances.

So from this:

http://ravercats.com/meow?status=Online®ion=Atlantis

To This:

http://ravercats.com/meow?region=Atlantis&status=Online

Because the ® as we know triggers the special character ®

Caveat: If you have no control over the order of your URL query string parameters then you'll have to change your variable name to something else.