permalinks - Problem with special character WordPress

I have a WordPress and everything seems perfectly fine but I have this page that has title 77% and it shows error 404 page. How can I fix this? I am kind of sure it is because of the % in the 77%. The permalink uses the 77 but for some reason wordpress still doesn't like that % in the title. What can I do to fix this while keeping the % there?

I have a WordPress and everything seems perfectly fine but I have this page that has title 77% and it shows error 404 page. How can I fix this? I am kind of sure it is because of the % in the 77%. The permalink uses the 77 but for some reason wordpress still doesn't like that % in the title. What can I do to fix this while keeping the % there?

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• your problem is not the '%', could you show us the code you are using? – andresmijares Commented Nov 15, 2011 at 16:50
• what do you mean the code i am using? i said i am using wordpress so i don't get what code you want – grant tailor Commented Nov 15, 2011 at 16:56
• My bad, normally we discuss coding issues in here, so that was my first guess, not from the back-end point of view – andresmijares Commented Nov 15, 2011 at 17:13

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There is nothing you can do, the % symbol is not a neutral character and whatever 2 characters immediatly follow it are used to represent a character. This is called percent encoding.

http://en.wikipedia/wiki/Percent-encoding

For example, to encode a % you would use %25.

Thus the answer is:

No, it is not possible to fix this while keeping the % there, because URLs are percent encoded.

Should by some stroke of luck you manage to get it working, I would recommend still avoiding it due to the misuse of the % symbol

I got this problem too.

First, when I saw it happening, I had to edit the permalink removing the % there. OK.

Second step, I had to search in permalink field in DB, replacing/removing all %. So, just removing it with a replace SQL command.

Third step? Remember to write the title of a new post, save a draft, see the permalink and edit it to remove the % and start write the content of the post.

I tried to see the hard code, and the command responsible to remove special characters and this function is there and the % is also there. So, I can't explain what it happens, but it's not removing it as well.