general/7314: when requesting a URL written in french, it rewrites it and says it cannot find it

[Doni Maxwell <ma...@matrix-wireless.com>]

>Number:         7314
>Category:       general
>Synopsis:       when requesting a URL written in french, it rewrites it and says it cannot find it
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Feb 24 12:10:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     maxwell@matrix-wireless.com
>Release:        1.3.Apache/1.3.12 (Unix)
>Organization:
apache
>Environment:
This is running on Linux Slackware 7.0, with kernel 2.2.12
>Description:
When going to this URL:

http://www.kec.be/SiteFR/Pages/Fran�ais.htm

it says in browser that it cannot find:

The requested URL /SiteFR/Pages/Français.htm was not found on this server.

Log files say this:
  <access_log>
adsl-65-64-202-177.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net - - [24/Feb/2001:13:54:21 -0600] "GET /SiteFR/Pages/Fran%C3%A7ais.htm HTTP/1.1" 404 299 "http://www.kec.be/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)"
  <error_log>
[Sat Feb 24 13:54:21 2001] [error] [client 65.64.202.177] File does not exist: /home/krein/htdocs/SiteFR/Pages/Français.htm

yet the URL is http://www.kec.be/SiteFR/Pages/Fran�ais.htm

I do not know why the server is doing this, and that file exists on the server.
>How-To-Repeat:
go to http://www.kec.be/SiteFR/Pages/Fran�ais.htm and you will see it.
>Fix:
I do not know... even the log files reports the same, yet the file IS there.
>Release-Note:
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