ajax call的url,jQuery ajax call to url containing accent characte

I was having trouble sending up a url containing accent characters using IE.

Here's a simple function:

function runjQueryTest(){

var url = "/test/Beyoncé/";

$.get( url, function(){});

}

On the server (PHP) I record the value of the request uri ($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]) and I see a difference between what FF/Chrome send up versus what IE sends up.

Chrome and FireFox cause the value of ($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]) to be

/test/Beyonc%C3%A9/

but requests from IE 8 show the value of ($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]) to be

/test/Beyonc\xe9

This is causing my dispatcher's regular expression handler to not match correctly on the server.

Any ideas what the root issue here is, and how I can fix it for IE?

Thanks!