Extended Characters in URL Translated into UTF-8 Characters

ID: Q193812

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Information Server version 4.0
Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0, Terminal Server Edition

SYMPTOMS

Extended characters in a URL are changed into Unicode Translation Format-8 (UTF-8) characters.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows NT 4.0 or Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q152734 How to Obtain the Latest Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Internet Information Server version 4.0. This problem was first corrected in Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4.0 and Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition Service Pack 4.

Additional query words: interpret changed transformed decoded Multilingual multi-lingual language

Keywords : NT4SP4Fix kbbug4.00 kbfix4.00.sp4
Version : WINNT:4.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug