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I'm having some trouble with some character encoding causing some problems with a search form on my website. One of the possible field values has an ampersand in it. When this is selected and a search is submitted the ampersand is encoded to: %2526
Upon using the pagination links at the bottom of the page and navigating to the second page in the list of results the ampersand is encoded to: %26
Finally...in an attempt to navigate to the 3rd page in the list the ampersand is changed back to: & This breaks the form as it assumes there's a variable that isn't actually there.
Why is the encoding changing? How can I fix this? Thanks for your help!
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Constructing URL Variables & - The ampersand is used before each subsequent variable/value pair in the query string. = - The equals sign separates the variable from the value assigned to that variable.
If you want one to appear in text on a web page you should use the encoded named entity “ & ”—more technical mumbo-jumbo at w3c.org. While most web browsers will let you get away without encoding them, stuff can get dicey in weird edge cases and fail completely in XML.
URL Encoding (Percent Encoding) URL encoding replaces unsafe ASCII characters with a "%" followed by two hexadecimal digits. URLs cannot contain spaces. URL encoding normally replaces a space with a plus (+) sign or with %20.
It looks like the field is being encoded twice. First pass will result in & changed into %26, then urlencoding %26 will result in %2526, since the encoding for % itself is %25.
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If you want to use Andaman & Nicobar in web API.
You can use instead of & you can use %26 and whole will be written as below.
Andaman+%26+Nicobar
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