Is an apostrophe ok in URL?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by Yosser, May 27, 2008.

  1. #1
    I was looking at a site for a client and a link checker I used threw a broken link error when it encountered a URL with an apostrophe in it (it's a town name).

    The URL returns the page ok, but now I'm not sure what to do.

    I guess that the use of an apostrophe in the URL is not great, but will it have an adverse effect on the page being indexed/crawled ?

    So - leave it as is or drop the ' ??
     
    Yosser, May 27, 2008 IP
  2. steelfrog

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    It should be fine. A simple apostrophe is considered an un-encoded character.
     
    steelfrog, May 27, 2008 IP