Unsafe characters
URLs use some characters for “special use” in defining their syntax and these should
be encoded. For various reasons, these characters present the possibility of being
misunderstood within a URL and are therefore considered “unsafe.”
The following table lists unsafe characters.
Characters
Hex
Dec
Space
20
32
“
Quotation marks
22
34
<
Less than symbol
3C
60
>
Greater than symboi
3E
62
#
Pound
23
35
%
Percent
25
37
Miscellaneous Characters
{
}
|
\
^
~
[
]
`
Left curly brace
Right curly brace
Vertical bar or pipe
Backslash
Caret
Tilde
Left square bracket
Right square bracket
Grave accent
7B
7D
7C
5C
5E
7E
5B
5D
60
123
125
124
92
94
126
91
93
96
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