diff --git a/citecue.php b/citecue.php
index 0fbea71..b78e1f8 100644
--- a/citecue.php
+++ b/citecue.php
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  * Plugin Name:       CiteCue AI Auto-Fix
  * Plugin URI:        https://github.com/citecue/wordpress-plugin
  * Description:       Serves CiteCue-optimized versions of your pages to AI bots and crawlers, publishes your llms.txt, and lets CiteCue push brand-building draft content into WordPress.
- * Version:           1.0.1
+ * Version:           1.0.2
  * Requires at least: 5.8
  * Requires PHP:      7.4
  * Author:            CiteCue
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static function () {
 	return;
 }
 
-define( 'CITECUE_VERSION', '1.0.1' );
+define( 'CITECUE_VERSION', '1.0.2' );
 define( 'CITECUE_PLUGIN_FILE', __FILE__ );
 define( 'CITECUE_PLUGIN_DIR', plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) );
 
diff --git a/includes/class-citecue-llms-txt.php b/includes/class-citecue-llms-txt.php
index 4b68d09..89af704 100644
--- a/includes/class-citecue-llms-txt.php
+++ b/includes/class-citecue-llms-txt.php
@@ -178,7 +178,9 @@ private function is_llms_txt_request() {
 			return false;
 		}
 
-		$path = (string) wp_parse_url( wp_unslash( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ), PHP_URL_PATH );
+		// esc_url_raw() rather than sanitize_text_field(), which strips
+		// percent-encoded sequences and would corrupt the path being matched.
+		$path = (string) wp_parse_url( esc_url_raw( wp_unslash( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ) ), PHP_URL_PATH );
 
 		$home_path = (string) wp_parse_url( home_url( '/' ), PHP_URL_PATH );
 		$target    = untrailingslashit( $home_path ) . '/llms.txt';
diff --git a/includes/class-citecue-plugin.php b/includes/class-citecue-plugin.php
index 1761897..fc4f658 100644
--- a/includes/class-citecue-plugin.php
+++ b/includes/class-citecue-plugin.php
@@ -102,13 +102,16 @@ private function __construct() {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Init: translations + cron self-heal.
+	 * Init: cron self-heal.
+	 *
+	 * There is deliberately no load_plugin_textdomain() call. Since WordPress
+	 * 4.6 a plugin hosted on WordPress.org has its translations loaded for it,
+	 * keyed by the slug — which is exactly what the text domain is now. The
+	 * call was pointing at a languages/ directory this plugin does not ship.
 	 *
 	 * @return void
 	 */
 	public function on_init() {
-		load_plugin_textdomain( 'citecue-ai-auto-fix', false, dirname( plugin_basename( CITECUE_PLUGIN_FILE ) ) . '/languages' );
-
 		if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( self::CRON_HOOK ) ) {
 			wp_schedule_event( time() + MINUTE_IN_SECONDS, 'daily', self::CRON_HOOK );
 		}
diff --git a/includes/class-citecue-proxy.php b/includes/class-citecue-proxy.php
index cec994b..c77ec3b 100644
--- a/includes/class-citecue-proxy.php
+++ b/includes/class-citecue-proxy.php
@@ -308,7 +308,10 @@ private function current_url() {
 		}
 		$scheme = is_ssl() ? 'https' : 'http';
 		$host   = sanitize_text_field( wp_unslash( $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] ) );
-		$uri    = wp_unslash( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );
+		// esc_url_raw(), not sanitize_text_field(): the latter deletes every
+		// percent-encoded sequence it finds, so /caf%C3%A9/ would reach CiteCue
+		// as /caf/ and be cached under the wrong key.
+		$uri = esc_url_raw( wp_unslash( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ) );
 		return esc_url_raw( $scheme . '://' . $host . $uri );
 	}
 
diff --git a/readme.txt b/readme.txt
index 9ce22d4..609cde8 100644
--- a/readme.txt
+++ b/readme.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Tags: ai, llms.txt, gptbot, ai-seo, woocommerce
 Requires at least: 5.8
 Tested up to: 7.0
 Requires PHP: 7.4
-Stable tag: 1.0.1
+Stable tag: 1.0.2
 License: GPLv2 or later
 License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
 
@@ -100,6 +100,10 @@ The plugin folder is now citecue-ai-auto-fix. If you installed 1.0.0 by uploadin
 
 == Changelog ==
 
+= 1.0.2 =
+* Translations no longer depend on the plugin loading them by hand; WordPress.org supplies them for the plugin slug.
+* The requested URL is sanitized on the way to CiteCue in a way that preserves percent-encoding, so pages with accented or non-Latin characters in the address are served and cached under the address they actually have.
+
 = 1.0.1 =
 * First release in the WordPress.org plugin directory.
 * An install that has not been connected to CiteCue now makes no outbound requests of any kind: the daily crawler-registry refresh waits for a connection.
diff --git a/tests/cases/test-proxy-delivery.php b/tests/cases/test-proxy-delivery.php
index 703c215..1851a12 100644
--- a/tests/cases/test-proxy-delivery.php
+++ b/tests/cases/test-proxy-delivery.php
@@ -75,6 +75,27 @@ public function test_delivery_request_is_addressed_correctly() {
 		$this->assertSame( 'wordpress', $request['args']['headers']['X-Citecue-Channel'] );
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * The requested URL reaches CiteCue with its percent-encoding intact.
+	 *
+	 * This is a standing trap rather than a hypothetical: REQUEST_URI has to
+	 * be sanitized to satisfy Plugin Check, and the reflex choice —
+	 * sanitize_text_field() — deletes every %xx sequence it finds. Under it
+	 * this URL would arrive as /caf/, which is a different page, cached under
+	 * a key CiteCue never answers for.
+	 *
+	 * @return void
+	 */
+	public function test_a_percent_encoded_url_is_not_mangled_on_the_way_out() {
+		$encoded = $this->fake_crawler_request( '/caf%C3%A9/' );
+		$this->http->queue( 'page', 200, '<html>optimized</html>' );
+
+		$this->proxy()->decide();
+
+		$this->assertStringContainsString( '%C3%A9', rawurldecode( $this->http->last( 'page' )['url'] ) );
+		$this->assertStringContainsString( 'caf%C3%A9', $encoded );
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * A second hit revalidates with the stored ETag instead of re-downloading.
 	 *