title: htaccess RewriteRule issue with UTF 8 Encoded query string
body: <p>We have a Prestashop based eCommerce website and is enabled with friendly urls.</p>
  
  <p>The url with a query string like this is working fine.
  <a href="http://www.mywebsite.com/en/validation?response_text=test" rel="nofollow">http://www.mywebsite.com/en/validation?response_text=test</a></p>
  
  <p>Query string with UTF 8 encoded string is not validated and throwing 404 page error.
  <a href="http://www.mywebsite.com/en/validation?response_text=PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4mVxdWVzdCB4%0AbWxuczp4PSJod" rel="nofollow">http://www.mywebsite.com/en/validation?response_text=PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4mVxdWVzdCB4%0AbWxuczp4PSJod</a></p>
  
  <p>How to allow UTF 8 encoded string</p>
  
  <p>htaccess is</p>
  
  <p><div class="snippet" data-lang="js" data-hide="false">
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  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>RewriteEngine on
  
  RewriteRule . - [E=REWRITEBASE:/]
  RewriteRule ^api$ api/ [L]
  
  RewriteRule ^api/(.*)$ %{ENV:REWRITEBASE}webservice/dispatcher.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
  
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
   RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
   RewriteRule ^.*$ %{ENV:REWRITEBASE}index.php [NC,L]
    &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
   AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject .eot
   AddType font/ttf .ttf
   AddType font/otf .otf
   AddType application/x-font-woff .woff
   &lt;IfModule mod_headers.c&gt;
  &lt;FilesMatch "\.(ttf|ttc|otf|eot|woff|svg)$"&gt;
   Header add Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
  &lt;/FilesMatch&gt;
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;</code></pre>
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  </p>
  
  <p>Thanks for your help</p>