diff --git a/nginx/nginx.conf b/nginx/nginx.conf
index b62b5633..0067d31e 100644
--- a/nginx/nginx.conf
+++ b/nginx/nginx.conf
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ http {
         }
 
         # broken link (now fixed) on https://noagendaphone.com/ with UTF-8 replacement character
-        location ~ "^/\xEF\xBF\xBC$" {
+        location = /%EF%BF%BC {
             return 301 /;
         }