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rybo
rybo

Reputation: 1181

Difference between "+" and "%A0" - urlencoding?

I am url encoding a string of text to pass along to a function. However, it encodes the second space in a double-space as "%A0". This means that when I decode the string, the "%A0" is displayed as a question mark in a black box.

I really just need to be able to remove the extra space, but I'd like to understand what is causing this and how to handle it correctly.

For example:

Something  Something else

Encodes to:

Something+%A0Something+else

Upvotes: 11

Views: 16483

Answers (4)

Stephane Gosselin
Stephane Gosselin

Reputation: 9148

If I refer to the chart on this page, %A0 is not a space. %20 is the space caracter's encoded value.

Upvotes: 1

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

Reputation: 798486

%A0 indicates a NBSP (U+00A0). + indicates a normal space (U+0020). The NBSP displays as a replacement character (U+FFFD) because the encoding of the character does not match the encoding of the page, so its byte sequence is not valid for the page.

Upvotes: 19

Paul DelRe
Paul DelRe

Reputation: 4039

A quick Googling shows that %A0 is the non-breaking space character or   in html. A + is the form-encoding for a standard space character.

Source

Upvotes: 4

Richard Marskell - Drackir
Richard Marskell - Drackir

Reputation: 13292

The problem you're having is that the second "space" is not really a space, it's a character that that font doesn't have a glyph (I think that's the term) to represent (hence the black box with the question mark). %A0 is the escape code for that character. Your code is technically handling it correctly, I think the problem is with whatever is generating the string in the first place.

Upvotes: 1

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