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Hi all,
I need some help handling special characters in my database. First, this isn't exactly phpBB SEO related, but DCZ has kindly offered to help me with some of these issues in a PM. It's also probably good to know about charactersets for SEO in general.

GOAL: To create SEO-friendly URL's that include the title of the movie.

Example: http://www.domain.com/movie/name-of-movie,12345.htm

ENVIRONMENT: PHP5, mySQL with all fields set to UTF

THE PROBLEM:

Because the movie titles have a variety of special characters (html entities) included, I cannot output to URL's directly. I have tried ...

I want to use Addthis for my forum. I know this place a cookie (Flash cookie) in user's computer and there is way to disable that cookie as well.

Now my question is does Addthis really help in SEO by submitting links to various social bookmarking sites? Is these links called backlinks? Is addthis compatible with search engines and various browsers.

Thanks for help in Advance.

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