laravel/framework — pull request #3565 by bwebi (2014-02-15 13:53:10+00:00)
Title: Support languages like Hebrew

Without urldecode() the compare look like this:
$pattern = 'אודות'
$this->path = '%d7%90%d7%95%d7%93%d7%95%d7%aa'
So it will always fail.
With urldecode() it look like this:
$pattern = 'אודות'
$this->path = 'אודות'
As it should be :)