Escape Backreferences in htaccess - redirecting %2B to +

Hi,

I faced a issue in redirecting urls having special characters like +,# etc,

I solved the issue by escaping the backreferences as follows,

[B] - Causes backreferences to be escaped to preserve special characters




In the above example,the former will collapse escaped characters (convert %2b to + for
example) while the latter will preserve them (stay as %2b)