I don't have a use case for this but I was recently asked this very question and w3schools helpfully tells you the characters are ignored but not why.
Anyone have any idea why this might be the case?
Thanks, David
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A:
The escape function is deprecated. Use encodeURI and encodeURIComponent instead.
Gumbo
2009-06-03 14:35:13
The funy thing is that encodeURIComponent that was only implemented by Mozilla in Javascript 1.5 was implemented by IE all the way back to IE 5.5.
Paulo Santos
2009-06-03 14:52:28
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A:
From your source: "The escape() function encodes a string, so it can be read on all computers." Those characters are standard in the ASCII set, so there's no point in encoding them for this particular purpose.
DXL
2009-06-03 14:35:38
This misses the point - the aim is to be able to safely transmit a string inside a *Uri*, which itself uses particular characters for reserved purposes.
Eamon Nerbonne
2009-08-12 08:38:50