Re: [tlug] character encoding

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 09:46:45AM +0900, Michael Engel wrote:

> I notice that sometimes in links, characters are written as
> %23 or %21. What kind of encoding is this ?

URL encoding uses the '%' symbol followed by a two-digit
hexadecimal representation of the desired character.   RFC 1738
specified that only alphanumeric characters and a few sepcial
characters (like $-_(),) could be included in their unencoded
form in a URL.


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