title: Need help removing special characters rewrite htaccess
body: <p>Struggling with a 301 redirect in htaccess after changing my links on my blog.</p>
  
  <p>I have the following code in htaccess today:</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
  RewriteRule ^.*$ http://example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
  RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ sitemap.php [L]
  Rewriterule ^blog/(.+)/(.+).html$       ./blog/view/blog.php?page=$1&amp;mode=$2 [NC]
  Rewriterule ^blog/(.+).html$            ./blog/blog.php?page=$1 [NC]
  Rewriterule ^blog/(.+)/$                ./blog/view/blog.php?page=$1 [NC]
  Rewriterule ^blog/$                     ./blog/blog.php [NC]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  Rewriterule ^blog/(.+)/(.+)$        ./blog/view/blog.php?page=$1&amp;mode=$2 [NC]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteRule ^blog/(.+)$ ./blog/blog.php?page=$1 [NC]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The problem is that I´ve now in php converted special characters like 'åäö' to 'aao' but the old links to my old posts has no redirect to the new links.</p>
  
  <p>Can someone please help me out here.</p>