The recommended encoding scheme to use is UTF-8. However, for compatibility reasons, if an encoding is not specified, then the default encoding of the platform is used.

URL encoding converts characters into a format that can be transmitted over the Internet. URLs can only be sent over the Internet using the ASCII character-set. Since URLs often contain characters outside the ASCII set, the URL has to be converted into a valid ASCII format.

URL encoding is the practice of translating unprintable characters or characters with special meaning within URLs to a representation that is unambiguous and universally accepted by web browsers and servers.

HTML symbol, character and entity codes, ASCII, CSS and HEX values for Colon, plus a panoply of others.

Sep 12, 2011 · The five characters listed above are sufficient to encode text in any safe location for both HTML and XML documents. For simplicity, compatibility, and to reduce the chance of mistakes, it's common to escape all of them in all cases.

Dec 5, 2012 · Yes, they should be encoded in a query string. The correct encoding is %3A However, I can understand why UriBuilder isn't encoding :. You don't want to encode the colon after the protocol (eg http:) or between the username and password (eg ftp://username: [email protected]) in an absolute URI.

In this article, you can find the complete list of the most useful HTML escape characters and cases when escapes should not be used.

Use this online free HTML Encoder Tool to convert characters to their corresponding HTML entities, to decode the encoded characters, and to convert the HTML code to JavaScript Unicode string.

The Unicode character :, or U+003A, is known as the "Colon". It belongs to the "Basic Latin" block and falls under the "Punctuation, Connector" category in the Unicode standard. The colon is …

Online Colon symbol. Copy and paste Colon symbols in HTML, Hex code, CSS code, and unicode.