Source
File: wp-includes/pluggable.php
function wp_sanitize_redirect( $location ) {
// Encode spaces.
$location = str_replace( ' ', '%20', $location );
$regex = '/
(
(?: [\xC2-\xDF][\x80-\xBF] # double-byte sequences 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx
| \xE0[\xA0-\xBF][\x80-\xBF] # triple-byte sequences 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx * 2
| [\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]{2}
| \xED[\x80-\x9F][\x80-\xBF]
| [\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]{2}
| \xF0[\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]{2} # four-byte sequences 11110xxx 10xxxxxx * 3
| [\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF]{3}
| \xF4[\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF]{2}
){1,40} # ...one or more times
)/x';
$location = preg_replace_callback( $regex, '_wp_sanitize_utf8_in_redirect', $location );
$location = preg_replace( '|[^a-z0-9-~+_.?#=&;,/:%!*\[\]()@]|i', '', $location );
$location = wp_kses_no_null( $location );
// Remove %0D and %0A from location.
$strip = array( '%0d', '%0a', '%0D', '%0A' );
return _deep_replace( $strip, $location );
}