Saturday, April 26, 2008

iPod tilde

I like my iPod touch as a handheld web browser using WiFi. Yes, it's expensive for that niche when you could probably use the slower Nintenndo DS Browser or other applications, but then you have an iPod for music, podcasts, or (my favorite) video podcasts.

However, I hit a stumbling block for a minute when I couldn't find the tilde on the soft keyboard. Then I agreed, tilde (~) should not be used in Web addresses. Luckily I remembered %7E on my own, and I know that is URL encoding. You could use an online URL encode/decode page, a self-contained page that can be saved for offline URL encoding and decoding, sample JavaScript to write your own, or these excellent shell scripts called urlencode and urldecode.

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