diff --git a/app/bundles/CoreBundle/Helper/UrlHelper.php b/app/bundles/CoreBundle/Helper/UrlHelper.php
index 7af2b87e623..acc0dfb45a2 100644
--- a/app/bundles/CoreBundle/Helper/UrlHelper.php
+++ b/app/bundles/CoreBundle/Helper/UrlHelper.php
@@ -324,4 +324,21 @@ private static function removeTrailingNonAlphaNumeric($string)
 
         return $string;
     }
+
+    /**
+     *  This method return true with special characters in URL, for example https://domain.tld/é.pdf
+     * filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) allow only alphanumerics [0-9a-zA-Z], the special characters "$-_.+!*'()," [not including the quotes - ed].
+     *
+     * @param string $url
+     *
+     * @return bool
+     */
+    public static function isValidUrl($url)
+    {
+        $path         = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);
+        $encodedPath  = array_map('urlencode', explode('/', $path));
+        $url          = str_replace($path, implode('/', $encodedPath), $url);
+
+        return (bool) filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/app/bundles/CoreBundle/Tests/Unit/Helper/UrlHelperTest.php b/app/bundles/CoreBundle/Tests/Unit/Helper/UrlHelperTest.php
index 4fd71f2f5c2..1920cac975b 100644
--- a/app/bundles/CoreBundle/Tests/Unit/Helper/UrlHelperTest.php
+++ b/app/bundles/CoreBundle/Tests/Unit/Helper/UrlHelperTest.php
@@ -181,4 +181,12 @@ public function testGetUrlsFromPlaintextWithSymbols()
             )
         );
     }
+
+    public function testUrlValid()
+    {
+        $this->assertTrue(UrlHelper::isValidUrl('https://domain.tld/e'));
+        $this->assertTrue(UrlHelper::isValidUrl('https://domain.tld/é'));
+        $this->assertFalse(UrlHelper::isValidUrl('notvalidurl'));
+        $this->assertFalse(UrlHelper::isValidUrl('notvalidurlé'));
+    }
 }
diff --git a/app/bundles/PageBundle/Controller/PublicController.php b/app/bundles/PageBundle/Controller/PublicController.php
index cce560db39f..49501ab7337 100644
--- a/app/bundles/PageBundle/Controller/PublicController.php
+++ b/app/bundles/PageBundle/Controller/PublicController.php
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ public function redirectAction($redirectId)
 
         $url = UrlHelper::sanitizeAbsoluteUrl($url);
 
-        if (false === filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL)) {
+        if (!UrlHelper::isValidUrl($url)) {
             throw $this->createNotFoundException($this->translator->trans('mautic.core.url.error.404', ['%url%' => $url]));
         }