title: .htaccess redirect starts with a % (percent) symbol
body: <p>I have a few external URI's pointing to my site that looks like this:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.example.com/%E2%80%8E" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/%E2%80%8E</a></p>
  
  <p>The goal is to redirect this (and any other ASCII encoded character) to the homepage.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried the next options:</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteRule ^%(.*) http://www.example.com [NC]
  RewriteRule ^\%(.*) http://www.example.com [NC]
  RewriteRule ^â(.*) http://www.example.com [NC]
  </code></pre>