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Zachary Jenkins
8,750 Pointsgoogle api fonts
how do you fix the google fonts notification error(when validating code) in regards to using escape characters???
thanks much
2 Answers
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsYou need to url encode the pipe character, | (vertical bar)
Replace the vertical bar characters with %7C
James Barnett
39,199 PointsThe | character is invalid in a URL, so to encode the | character change it to %7c
Zachary Jenkins
8,750 PointsZachary Jenkins
8,750 Pointshey thanks guys...i didn't realize you had to encode the ascii hex value. :]
James Barnett
39,199 PointsJames Barnett
39,199 PointsZachary Jenkins -
Any character besides
a-z,A-Z,0-9,-,.,_, and~needs to be encoded.source:Section 2.3 of RFC 3986 the standard which defines the syntax for a URL
Zachary Jenkins
8,750 PointsZachary Jenkins
8,750 Pointsthanks so much James :]