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Using the REST service may require that you encode certain characters using the proper URL entities before adding them to a URL. Characters like spaces, slashes, ampersands, and others must be replaced by special codes, which usually consist of a percent sign followed by a two-digit hexadecimal number.

The following table shows the replacements for the most common characters.

{|class="alternate01" cellspacing="0"
!Character
!style="border-right:0px;"|Encoding
|-
|Space
| %20 or +
|-
| *
| %2A
|-
| #
| %23
|-
| &
| %26
|-
| %
| %25
|-
| $
| %28
|-
| +
| %2B
|-
| ,
| %2C
|-
| /
| %2F
|-
| :
| %3A
|-
| ;
| %3B
|-
| <
| %3C
|-
| =
| %3D
|-
| >
| %3E
|-
| ?
| %3F
|-
| @
| %40
|-
| [
| %5B
|-
| ]
| %5D
|-
| ~
| %7E
|-
| &
| & (ampersand)
|-
| “
| " (left/right quotes should be replaced with straight quotes)
|-
| ‘
| ' (apostrophe)
|-
| <
| < (less-than)
|-
| >
| > (greater-than)
|}

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