Percent-encoding - Revision history

Jsummers at 23:47, 21 May 2015

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Jsummers at 23:27, 20 May 2015

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Jsummers: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Transfer Encodings }} '''Percent-encoding''' is transfer encoding in which certain "unsafe" bytes are replaced by 3-byte escape seq..."

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'''Percent-encoding''' is transfer encoding in which certain "unsafe" bytes are replaced by 3-byte escape sequence. The escape sequence is a percent sign (<code>%</code>), followed by two (usually uppercase) hex digits. Sometimes, as a special case, a space character is allowed to be encoded as a single "<code>+</code>" character.

It is primarily used as part of [[URL encoding]], and [[Form URL encoding]].

The term '''Percent-encoding''' is actually somewhat ambiguous, and is often conflated with [[URL encoding]].

== Links ==
* [[Wikipedia:Percent-encoding]]

[[Category:Web]]

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	The term '''Percent-encoding''' is actually somewhat ambiguous, and is often conflated with [[URL encoding]].		The term '''Percent-encoding''' is actually somewhat ambiguous, and is often conflated with [[URL encoding]].
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		+	== Encoding text ==
		+	Percent-encoding encodes byte-oriented data, and doesn't necessarily suggest a way to encode text. Nowadays, it's normal (but far from universal) for text to be encoded as [[UTF-8]] before being percent-encoded.
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		+	A Microsoft extension of percent-encoding allowed a Unicode character (or [[UTF-16]] code unit?) to be encoded <code>%uXXXX</code>, but this is not standard, and not recommended.

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-'''Percent-encoding''' is transfer encoding in which certain "unsafe" bytes are replaced by 3-byte escape sequence. The escape sequence is a percent sign (<code>%</code>), followed by two (usually uppercase) hex digits. Sometimes, as a special case, a space character is allowed to be encoded as a single "<code>+</code>" character.
+'''Percent-encoding''' is transfer encoding in which certain "unsafe" bytes are, in most cases, replaced by a 3-byte escape sequence. The escape sequence is a percent sign (<code>%</code>), followed by two (usually uppercase) hex digits. Sometimes, as a special case, a space character is allowed to be encoded as a single "<code>+</code>" character.
 It is primarily used as part of [[URL encoding]], and [[Form URL encoding]].