I'm writing a multilingual dictionary web app; trying to make a redirect such that when a user types in something like

my-site.com/dictionary/french

it redirects him to

my-site.com/dictionary/language/?lang=french

So right now my .htaccess file, stored in the "dictionary" folder, only has one line:



The [a-mk-z] is so that when you get redirected to dictionary/language, it doesn't trigger the same effect. None of my languages start with L, so it's really no problem.

It works fine except that it changes the language/?lang to language/%3flang, which of course means that the language name doesn't get passed to the script. Is there any way to fix this? I tried the [NE] tag, but as you can see, it didn't work.

Thanks in advance.