Do you recommend using special characters in URLs?

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Published on March 27, 2012 5:20:37 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4TKJwvTu50

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A lot of European languages, like Spanish or French, have special characters (ç, á, è, ñ, and so on). Would you recommend to use them in the URLs? What about capital letters? Would you 301 redirect mysite.com/Page to mysite.com/page? Christian Oliveira, Madrid

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