Hello all,

As discussed in this StackOverflow question, when encoding/decoding an url it may happen that some combination of characters ends up being converted.

I got tricked while encoding an URL with a “currency” GET parameter:

http://www.example.com&currency=EU -> http://www.example.com¤cy=EU

In HTML, the &curren combination is interpreted as the ¤ (currency) character.

Thus the first part “&curren” was converted into “¤” and the remaining part of the parameter “cy” was left as is.

A silly issue indeed 🙂