title: Using htaccess to rewrite special characters for Wordpress url aliases
body: <p>I recently migrated a fairly large site (~6,000 posts) from Drupal to Wordpress. As part of the process, I migrated the Drupal-created url aliases to Wordpress for SEO and link retention purposes.</p>
  
  <p>An example of a url alias that Drupal created that worked great in Drupal:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>/stories/will-this-be-another-la-niña-year</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>That url in Wordpress returns a 404. However, this works:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>/stories/will-this-be-another-la-nina-year</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>It seems then my best bet is to write a generic international character to english character set rewrite rule in htaccess, before the url is passed to Wordpress.</p>
  
  <p>Any idea how I might do this?
  Thanks a lot for whatever help you can give.
  Matt.</p>