foreign characters when switching between languages

[norku]

Hi,

This thread was posted by a user with German set as his default language:

http://www.xxxxxxxxxx.com/forum/de/f31/hj-messer-böcker-4824/

All good. When I switch the forum to English using the flag and then hover over that link in 'What's New?' I see:

http://www.xxxxxxxxxxx.com/forum/f31/hj-messer-böcker-4824/

Great - until I click on the link. When the page opens I see the following in the browser address bar:

http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxx.com/forum/f31/hj-messer-b%C3%B6cker-4824/

I need German words containing special characters (ö,ä etc) to stay as they are because people searching for my content will use German words in the search string regardless of the language they themselves speak.

What can I do to prevent this foreign character problem chaps? Or am I missing something really obvious? Wouldn't be the first time since I started using Vbet

Just for info: in Vbseo I have the following set:

'Replace Non-English Characters in URLs? - no'

'Define your custom character replacements
'ü' => 'ue'
'ä' => 'ae'
'ö' => 'oe'
'ß' => 'ss'
'Ü' => 'Ue'
'Ä' => 'Ae'
'Ö' => 'Oe''

Thanks