Redirection of encoded URLs

You do not understand me. This is the encoding that I use, but the module resolve the encoding and show me in the table of redirections the URL with the normal characters. Then if I try the URL in browser, logged in, the redirection work, but if I logged out then I get a loop redirection because there is an issue! The loop redirection it is on the destination URL WOTHOUT diacritics characters! So that means that the redirection module encode the URL back and in the process do not make differece between the one with character encoded or not. Come on, this is an issue not a normal behavior!

Try in your backend to create a fictive redirection of a page that have the url that I give to you. See for your self. I tryit already on other domain with other system and RankMath do the same.

You understand me or my english is chinese? I speak english but it is not my mother languadge. because that I ask, maybe I do not explain to be undestood good.

Thank you!

Hi Todd,

I will give you an example.
Thesource: elementele-%C8%99amanice-ale-vrajitoriei
Thetarget: elementele-samanice-ale-vrajitoriei

I test it on my website with all the plugins deactivated to see if there it is an influence. It was the same effect. What I observe it is that when I am logged in and testit, the redirection works, but when I am logged out, it does not.
I test it on other website that has rank math but not nginx/apache/varnish like mine, but only apache. The same loop redirection issue. I test it on a website that user Yoast SEO premium and there was no loop redirection issue. What I can see also it is that on Yoast redirections manager, the encoded URL remain encoded in the table, but on RM redirection manager it is resolved.
There had to be an bug on the code where the sanitized of the source URL start. Maybe this will help you:

wordpress-seo-premium/premium/classes/redirect/redirect-handler.php

‘protected function normalize_redirects( $redirects ) {
$normalized_redirects = array();

foreach ( $redirects as $origin => $redirect ) {
$normalized_redirects[ rawurldecode( $origin ) ] = $redirect;
}

return $normalized_redirects;
}’

If you can stop the decoding of the source URL and let it encoded in all the redirection steps it will be best.