title: Problem with cyrillic characters in friendly url
body: <p>Here's the thing. I have friendly urls like</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><a href="http://site.com/blog/read" rel="nofollow">http://site.com/blog/read</a>/мъдростта-на-вековете</p>
    
    <p><a href="http://site.com/blog/read/green-apple" rel="nofollow">http://site.com/blog/read/green-apple</a></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The last segment is actually the friendly title of the blog article. The problem is when I try to pass that segment to the database, the cyrillic fonts turn into something like <strong>%D1%8A%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%8</strong> and couldn't match the database record. In the address bar in my browser it looks normal (<strong>мъдростта-на-вековете</strong>) but if I choose 'copy url location' the last segment again turns into these strange characters. I'm using <strong>CodeIgniter</strong> and everything is set to UTF-8.</p>
  
  <p>Please help! :(</p>