htaccess clean url syntax converts a pipe symbol to %7C - mod-rewrite

Question

i've spent the last 10 hours to figure out what am I doing wrong but no effect so far unfortunately...
so this is my case:
RewriteRule ^party/(.*)$ party.php?party=$1 [L]
is my working rule for clean url in htaccess.
It works perfectly, but now I have some special chars in the $_GET parameter , * for example is not converted but pipe symbol does into %7C.
I checked party.php?party=$1 and it displays all the characters correctly, so i guess my htaccess syntax is causing the failure....
I also tried the [NE] flag but it doesn't work...
Any ideas anyone?
Thank you very very much!
I've also just realised that url is displayed properly in mozilla...

Answer 1

I use:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+)?\.testynarkotykowe.xernt.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://testynarkotykowe.pl/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
PLUS YOU do.
function sUrl() {
$_GET = explode('/',substr(getenv('REQUEST_URI'),1)); $_pth = PTH;
if(!empty($_pth)) {
$pth = explode('/',PTH);
for($i = 0; $i < count($_GET); $i++) if($_GET[$i] == $pth[$i]) unset($_GET[$i]);
array_splice($_GET,0,0);
} foreach($_GET as $k=>$v) $_GET[$k] = htmlspecialchars($v); /* SECURITY: check for addslashes */
}
}