Problem with dashes and hyphens in Product or Category names

[steve4000]

Every time I add a product category or name that contains a dash in it, the url is replaced with %252d. I don't see why dashes should be replaced with that ugly set of characters. Does anyone know how to fix it?

[Painstik]

When you URL encode "-" char, you'll get %2d. And "%" encoded is %25. So you get %252d instead of "-".

That kind of URL encoding is very good for sem, cos you don't have to worry if search engine is going to be able to properly index your domain.

For this char is not necessary to url encode, but it's necessery to encode special chars like "(", "{" and so on...