In a recent note, Peter Rasmussen said:
> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 17:00:56 +0100
>
> Regarding the ' ' vs. %20 issue, isn't there a standard to hold it against or
> is it an implementation issue?
>
Yes. From RFC 1738 at http://www.w3.org/Addressing/rfc1738.txt:
2.2. URL Character Encoding Issues
[ ... ]
Octets must be encoded if they have no corresponding graphic
character within the US-ASCII coded character set, if the use of the
corresponding character is unsafe, or if the corresponding character
is reserved for some other interpretation within the particular URL
scheme.
[ ... ]
Characters can be unsafe for a number of reasons. The space
character is unsafe because significant spaces may disappear and
insignificant spaces may be introduced when URLs are transcribed or
typeset or subjected to the treatment of word-processing programs.
-- gil
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