url-style

What to do with a community URL style like Last.FM or Wikipedia?

Hi, I'm trying to understand how I should work with characters in URLs, this because I'm building a site where the user can store content and go to the content's page by digiting it's name in the URL. so, something like Wikipedia or Last.FM website. I see in the site, user can write something likehttp://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trentemøll...

Using an url with & char and the rest of special chars

Hi, I'm trying to work with special chars in URLs but I have some trouble on undertand what I shuld do to get it works correctly. I've saw URLs like: http://www.last.fm/music/Simon+&+Garfunkel http://www.last.fm/music/小林武史 works perfectly on Last.FM, but how can I do that? I've asked at this question some way to do it, but has s...