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Posted by Zachary Jenkins
Zachary Jenkins
8,750 Points

google 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
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

You need to url encode the pipe character, | (vertical bar)

Replace the vertical bar characters with %7C

Zachary Jenkins
Zachary Jenkins
8,750 Points

hey thanks guys...i didn't realize you had to encode the ascii hex value. :]

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Zachary 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
Zachary Jenkins
8,750 Points

thanks so much James :]

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

The | character is invalid in a URL, so to encode the | character change it to %7c

source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/22469221/1756132s