URL - safe and unsafe characters

RFC - http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt

"Unsafe characters"
	Why:	Some characters present the possibility of being misunderstood within URLs for various reasons. These characters should also always be encoded.
	Characters:	Character Code Points (Hex) Code Points (Dec) Why encode? Space 20 32 Significant sequences of spaces may be lost in some uses (especially multiple spaces) Quotation marks 'Less Than' symbol ("<") 'Greater Than' symbol (">") 22 3C 3E 34 60 62 These characters are often used to delimit URLs in plain text. 'Pound' character ("#") 23 35 This is used in URLs to indicate where a fragment identifier (bookmarks/anchors in HTML) begins. Percent character ("%") 25 37 This is used to URL encode/escape other characters, so it should itself also be encoded. Misc. characters:    Left Curly Brace ("{")    Right Curly Brace ("}")    Vertical Bar/Pipe ("|")    Backslash ("\")    Caret ("^")    Tilde ("~")    Left Square Bracket ("[")    Right Square Bracket ("]")    Grave Accent ("`") 7B 7D 7C 5C 5E 7E 5B 5D 60 123 125 124 92 94 126 91 93 96 Some systems can possibly modify these characters.

"Reserved characters"
	Why:	URLs use some characters for special use in defining their syntax. When these characters are not used in their special role inside a URL, they need to be encoded.
	Characters:	Character Code Points (Hex) Code Points (Dec)  Dollar ("$")  Ampersand ("&")  Plus ("+")  Comma (",")  Forward slash/Virgule ("/")  Colon (":")  Semi-colon (";")  Equals ("=")  Question mark ("?")  'At' symbol ("@") 24 26 2B 2C 2F 3A 3B 3D 3F 40 36 38 43 44 47 58 59 61 63 64