Some time ago, I used to see A LOT of combinations such as %20, and Á#% (you get the idea) in URLS... While never seeing an url with a Diacritic mark over any letter, ie. ñ,å,é,ô, etc. Do you know why that is?? (I may be crazy, perhaps it was never
Illegal URL characters must be encoded before being used in URLs. Spaces and diacritic marks are examples. They use special "percentage" codes to represent illegal URL characters in valid URLs.
Spaces are %20, for example.
Read more here:
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm
Juliana Peña
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