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htaccess Rewrite rule to accept Hindi characters – Apache

I have a link like this
www.example.com/profile.php?name=sagar123

I used this rule:

RewriteRule ^profile/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ profile.php?name=$1 [L]

and now I can chang my URL to like this:

www.example.com/profile/sagar123

everything is fine but, now I want to use Hindi language characters also like this

www.example.com/profile.php?name=सागर (It’s working fine)

www.example.com/profile/सागर (It is not working and showing Server error)

Please help me to write a rule or regex to accept all ([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+) and also Hindi Character.

Thanks and regards,

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  1. 0

    Use the (.*) regex class to match any type of character.

    Also, you don’t need the + operator at the end in your capturing ( and ) parens, as you’re using ^ to indicate the beginning of the URL line, and $ to indicate its end, so a + greedy operator doesn’t get you anything extra.

    It should look like…

    RewriteRule ^profile/(.*)$ profile.php?name=$1 [L]

    If you need further info, I recommend taking a look at Apache.org: Apache mod_rewrite Introduction. They cover most of the characters I’ve discussed in this post up to this point: ., (, ), +, etc..

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    Hindi chars falls between u0900-u097F range. So you can use this inside character class.

    To answer your question, most regexes(PCRE) do not support u notation and support format of x{900}

    ([x{900}-x{97F}a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$

    In python u is supported, so :

    ([u0900-u097Fa-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$

    see this for regex matching demonstrating both English and Hindi chars getting matched.

    Also, see this for reading literal hindi char mapped to their hex values.

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