Fixing URL encoded entities in URL

[spiros]

Fixing URL encoded entities in URL

I have tried to use AMP but for some reason URLs appear differently in Google search results, I.e. :
Original URL:

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https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?action=amp;topic=987010

URL in Search:

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https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?action=amp%3Btopic%3D985701
https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/31063

I was advised to "update the server to handle escaped query parameters" or "use & instead of ; for different query parameters". Could it be possible to fix this via htaccess? I.e.:

Find
forum/index.php?action=amp%3Btopic%3[ANY_TOPIC_ID_HERE]
Replace
forum/index.php?action=amp;topic=[ANY_TOPIC_ID_HERE]

This is what I have in htaccess now

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<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)$  [NC]
    RewriteRule ^ https://www.%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
</IfModule>


And this is the code I can see in search results (not sure which exactly of the URLs there is the one used to direct to the site, I can see data-amp and data-amp-cur values being different):

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<a class="C8nzq BmP5tf amp_r" data-amp="https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?action=amp;topic%3D985701" data-amp-cur="https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?action=amp;topic=985701" data-amp-title="translatum.gr" data-amp-vgi="8458557019360116853" href="https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?action=amp;topic=985701" data-ved="2ahUKEwim8cXvrvvsAhXCMewKHYUJDfEQFjAAegQIARAB" ping="/url?sa=i&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;url=https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php%3Faction%3Damp%3Btopic%3D985701&amp;ved=2ahUKEwim8cXvrvvsAhXCMewKHYUJDfEQFjAAegQIARAB&amp;psig=AOvVaw3Zumwox_YowxhDDwIehV-e&amp;ust=1605214160452451&amp;ampcf=1"><div class="abuKkc IhfN8d MUxGbd lyLwlc aLF0Z"><img class="eqA2re" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAIAAACQkWg2AAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAAMklEQVR4AWMY5OD/TIb/aZgIl+o0XAinanSdBAGFGmbS0gZMLxGrgSirCAQrYT2DHwAAv0tHhsJpXPsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" alt="Image" aria-hidden="true" data-atf="1" width="16" height="16"><span class="Zu0yb UGIkD qzEoUe">www.translatum.gr<span class="kbNtnf Jzkcjd"> %u203A forum</span></span><span jsname="zYLzN" class="ZseVEf QzoJOb" aria-label="AMP logo"></span></div><h2 class="Uo8X3b">Web results</h2><div class="PpBGzd YcUVQe MUxGbd v0nnCb" aria-level="3" role="heading"><div class="V7Sr0 p5AXld PpBGzd YcUVQe">pre-owned -&gt; %u03BC%u03B5%u03C4%u03B1%u03C7%u03B5%u03B9%u03C1%u03B9%u03C3%u03BC%u03AD%u03BD%u03BF%u03C2, %u03B4%u03B5%u03CD%u03C4%u03B5%u03C1%u03BF %u03C7%u03AD%u03C1%u03B9, %u03C0%u03BF%u03C5 %u03B5%u03AF%u03C7%u03B5 %u03C0%u03C1%u03BF%u03B7%u03B3%u03BF%u03CD%u03BC%u03B5%u03BD%u03BF %u03B9%u03B4%u03B9%u03BF%u03BA%u03C4%u03AE%u03C4%u03B7, %u03C0%u03C1%u03BF%u03CA%u03B4%u03B9%u03CC%u03BA%u03C4%u03B7%u03C4%u03BF%u03C2 - Translatum</div></div></a>

[Kindred]

does it work if you use ANY other phrase other than amp;?

[spiros]

To give you some context, this relates with: https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=574227.msg4073381#msg4073381

There is no issue with canonical URLs.

[Antes]

There are no issues with AMP (header) links as well... what Kindred asking is;

https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic%3D574227.msg4073381#msg4073381 - yes if the "=" sign becomes "%3D" is any other link works, the answer is no- unfortunately.