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Re: Where to look up "%20"-like chars for use with HTML?



On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:35:15PM -0400, Andre Berger wrote:
> I have to mask a "&" in a URL (HTML 4.01 Transitional, text/html;
> charset=utf-8) that pointing to a CGI script; "&" doesn't work.
> You can mask special characters a la "%20" in HTML. What encoding is
> this, and where can I find a listing?

As well as what Sean said, CGI scripts sometimes support substituting +
for & to avoid this problem, so you could try that.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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