Turn off sending UTF-8 query strings for URLs

This policy setting determines whether Internet Explorer uses 8-bit Unicode Transformation Format (UTF-8) to encode query strings in URLs before sending them to servers or to proxy servers.

If you enable this policy setting, you must specify when to use UTF-8 to encode query strings:
0) Never encode query strings.
1) Only encode query strings for URLs that aren't in the Intranet zone.
2) Only encode query strings for URLs that are in the Intranet zone.
3) Always encode query strings.

If you disable or don't configure this policy setting, users can turn this behavior on or off, using Internet Explorer Advanced Options settings. The default is to encode all query strings in UTF-8.

Select the desired behavior

0. Never encode query strings in UTF-8
   

   Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER
   Registry Path	Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel
   Value Name	UTF8URLQuery
   Value Type	REG_DWORD
   Value	0

1. Encode query strings in UTF-8 only in non-Intranet URLs
   

   Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER
   Registry Path	Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel
   Value Name	UTF8URLQuery
   Value Type	REG_DWORD
   Value	1

2. Encode query strings in UTF-8 only in Intranet URLs
   

   Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER
   Registry Path	Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel
   Value Name	UTF8URLQuery
   Value Type	REG_DWORD
   Value	2

3. Always encode query strings in UTF-8
   

   Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER
   Registry Path	Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel
   Value Name	UTF8URLQuery
   Value Type	REG_DWORD
   Value	3