Using special characters in a file link

Filed Under: General

11 November 2008 No Comment

Today some people were uploading stuff with foot signs in the file name to one of my blogs. Obviously the links were all broken. I know the basic syntax for example for spaces (%2B), because you see it all the time, but I had to lookup the others in a book.

This small table can help us to fix URL’s …

Character	URL Syntax	Description
	%2B	Space ¹
‘	%27	Foot Sign
“	%22	Quote
#	%23	Number sign
%	%25	Percent sign
&	%26	Ampersand
+	\%2B	Plus sign ¹
/	%2F	Solidus (slash)
:	%3A	Colon
;	%3B	Semicolon
<	%3C	Less than
>	%3E	Greater than
?	%3F	Question mark

Character	URL Syntax	Description
	+	Space
‘	%27	Foot Sign
“	%26quot%3B	Quote
#	%23	Number sign
%	%25	Percent sign
&	%26amp%3B	Ampersand
+	%2B	Plus sign
/	%2F	Solidus (slash)
:	%3A	Colon
;	%3B	Semicolon
<	%26lt%3B	Less than
>	%26gt%3B	Greater than
?	%3F	Question mark
™	%26%23153%3b	Trademark
®	%26%23174%3b	Registered Trademark
©	%26%23169%3b	Copyright

Character	URL Syntax	Description
	+	Space
′	%27	Foot Sign
“	%22	Quote
#	%23	Number sign
%	%25	Percent sign
&	%26	Ampersand
+	%2B	Plus sign
/	%2F	Solidus (slash)
:	%3A	Colon
;	%3B	Semicolon
<	%3C	Less than
>	%3E	Greater than
?	%3F	Question mark