[thelist] Cold Fusion Column Formatting

[Robin Hastings]

.jeff said:

> you should encode any strings that you'll be using in the url to make sure
> that non-alphanumeric characters are properly escaped.  you don't have to
> decode them afterwards though -- the cf server takes care of that for you
> (fwiw, i erroneously posted a while back that you had to decode them).
>
> what you're experiencing right now is ie automatically trying to
> encode any
> url that isn't a valid url.  however, most browsers won't do this for you
> and will instead break on your unescaped spaces and other characters.

Thanks .jeff - I was wondering if my preferred browser was doing this -
heaven save us from idiot-proof browers!! I'll make sure I get it added
while I'm rearranging my rows. Thanks!!

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