Question

In URL encoding replaces non-ASCII characters with ________

(a) “*”

(b) “&”

(c) “%”

(d) “+”

I got this question during an interview.

I want to ask this question from URL Encoding in section HTML Images & Web Page Files of HTML

Answer 1

Correct option is (c) “%”

For explanation I would say: In URL encoding non-ASCII characters are replaced with “%” which is followed by hexadecimal digits. URL can only contain ASCII character set. There should be no space in the URL, space is replaced by %20 or “+” in URL encoding.