Arabic characters in URL while sharing on Twitter

Question

I'm facing an issue trying to sharing an URL which includes arabic characters on Twitter:

http://example.com/قرعة-تصفيات-أفريقيا-مصر-تواجه-نيجيريا/

When i click on "share" the same URL is showed in the tweet box, but when I actually tweet, it just links to http://example.com, and the rest of the URL is lost.

I tried using urlencode(), but the generated URL is too long and impossible tweet. How could I solve this?

Answer 1

If you are owner of website, you can write htaccess RewriteRule for generate shorter or English url or use Redirection file.

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule ^redirect/(.*)/?$ ./redirector.php?key=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

And if you are user of website just you can use URL shorter websites like bit.ly or goo.gl