title: Dealing with accents in the URL
body: <p>I have sent the following to a url query string "Filosof&iacute;a" and it appears as "?page=filosofía" in the browser. Which is great. But when I read it from the $_REQUEST variable and convert it back into an htmlentities string it converts to "filosof&Atilde;&shy;a" which is not what is expected which is "Filosof&iacute;a" what it originally was.</p>
  
  <p>What do I do to get this converted correctly so that I can do comparisons.</p>
  
  <p>I tried comparing "filosofía" with what came back originaly i.e. "filosofía" and it failed.</p>
  
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  <li>So confused, need help!</li>
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