diff --git a/docs/changelog/7.x.x.txt b/docs/changelog/7.x.x.txt
index 359108fba..51b7db24a 100644
--- a/docs/changelog/7.x.x.txt
+++ b/docs/changelog/7.x.x.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
  - fixed #11782: Attachments all showing duplicated first thumbnail
  - fixed #11777: Thingy search on yes no field fails
  - fixed #11787: Gallery resolutions wrongly ordered
+ - fixed #11785: Article title / URL with äÄöÖüÜ (reopen #11683)
 
 7.9.12
  - webgui.org homepage gives 404  (#11778)
diff --git a/lib/WebGUI/Content/Asset.pm b/lib/WebGUI/Content/Asset.pm
index dff7f50b5..400682475 100644
--- a/lib/WebGUI/Content/Asset.pm
+++ b/lib/WebGUI/Content/Asset.pm
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ use LWP::MediaTypes qw(guess_media_type);
 use Time::HiRes;
 use WebGUI::Asset;
 use WebGUI::PassiveAnalytics::Logging;
-use URI;
 
 use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(OK);
 
@@ -146,9 +145,7 @@ sub getUrlPermutations {
         push @permutations, $url;
         $url =~ s/\.\w+$//;
     }
-    my $uri       = URI->new($url);
-    my @fragments = $uri->path_segments();
-    use Data::Dumper;
+    my @fragments = split /\//, $url;
     FRAG: while (@fragments) {
         last FRAG if $fragments[-1] eq '';
         push @permutations, join "/", @fragments;
diff --git a/t/Content/Asset.t b/t/Content/Asset.t
index c746df170..75c5fbd6c 100644
--- a/t/Content/Asset.t
+++ b/t/Content/Asset.t
@@ -18,9 +18,11 @@ use strict;
 use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../lib";
 use Test::More;
 use Test::Deep;
+use Data::Dumper;
 use WebGUI::Test; # Must use this before any other WebGUI modules
 use WebGUI::Session;
 use WebGUI::Content::Asset;
+use Encode;
 
 my $output;
 
@@ -76,13 +78,21 @@ my $td
         url             => 'testdispatch',
     } );
 
-diag $td->getId;
+my $utf8_url = "viel-spa\x{00DF}";
+utf8::upgrade $utf8_url;
+my $utf8
+    = WebGUI::Asset->getImportNode( $session )->addChild( {
+        title           => "utf8",
+        className       => 'WebGUI::Asset::TestDispatch',
+        url             => $utf8_url,
+    } );
+
 WebGUI::Test->addToCleanup( WebGUI::VersionTag->getWorking( $session ) );
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Tests
 
-plan tests => 17;        # Increment this number for each test you create
+plan tests => 20;        # Increment this number for each test you create
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # test getUrlPermutation( url ) method
@@ -122,7 +132,11 @@ cmp_deeply(
     [ '/one/two/three.rss', '/one/two/three', '/one/two', '/one', ],
     ".ext is a seperate URL permutation",
 );
-
+cmp_deeply(
+    WebGUI::Content::Asset::getUrlPermutations( $utf8_url ),
+    [ $utf8_url ],
+    "UTF-8 handling for URLs",
+);
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # test dispatch( session, url ) method
@@ -132,6 +146,12 @@ is $output, "www_view one", "Regular www_view";
 
 is $session->asset && $session->asset->getId, $td->getId, 'dispatch set the session asset';
 
+my $_asset = WebGUI::Asset->newByUrl($session, $utf8_url);
+isa_ok $_asset, 'WebGUI::Asset::TestDispatch';
+
+$output = WebGUI::Content::Asset::dispatch( $session, $utf8_url );
+is $output, "www_view utf8", "dispatch for utf8 urls";
+
 $output = WebGUI::Content::Asset::dispatch( $session, "testdispatch/foo" );
 is $output, "bar", "special /foo handler";