[Cialug] Codes: =3D %20

[David Champion]

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Todd Walton<tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> What's with the "=3D" that I sometimes see?  I think it's HTML maybe
>> being converted... Something to do with character sets?...
>>
>> I know that %20 becomes a space in URLs.
>>
>> What is all this called?  Where can I find out more about it?
>>
>>     
>
> In your browser's address bar you can type this URL to see what the
> character is:
>
> javascript:alert(unescape('%3D'));
>
> Or if you have firebug, console.log(unescape('%3D'));
>
> In this case it's an = and is probably being encoded because it has
> significance in the source. Maybe the last character of an email
> message line can't be a space or an = so they get encoded to =20 and
> =3D.
>
>   

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-dc