title: .htaccess -> Characters not escaping in rewrite string "(" ")"
body: <p>I'm currently trying to add some redirects from a very old site that had PDFs and some of these PDFs have used brackets to contain the years.</p>
  
  <p>For example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/document%2070C11-name%20(2012).pdf
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So the full URL I am trying to redirect is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>https://website.co.uk/document/1/document%2070C11-name%20(2012).pdf
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have previously setup many different redirects on this site but ones with the special characters seem to be causing an issue.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the examples of what I have tried, and failed with so far:</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteEngine on
  RewriteBase /
  
  RewriteRule ^document/1/document%2070C11-name%20\(2008\).pdf$ document/newurl/ [R=301,L]
  RewriteRule ^document/1/document%2070C11-name%20(.*)2008(.*).pdf$ document/newurl/ [R=301,L]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So I tried escaping the character and just trying a wildcard. Neither seemed to work on my Apache server. The code I used did seem to work when I tested it on:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://htaccess.madewithlove.be/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://htaccess.madewithlove.be/</a></p>
  
  <p>But I am pretty stuck now and would love any help I can get.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,
  Kane</p>