%20 is the URL-encoded form of a space; %25 is the URL-encoded form of the percent sign. The URL you are posting gets re-encoded and % becomes %25 (in the same way that a space becomes %20)
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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
For lazy people like me: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s
clean_anion@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
stephen@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
It’s encoding your URL into the correct format for your Browers URL bar. “%25” is the encoded version of “%”, so it’s being replaced.
It’s obviously incorrect in this instance since it’s not an actual URL. Maybe it wouldn’t happen if you’re able to put the URL string into a code block?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Why tf is http not unicode yet?
Badabinski@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
It's getting encoded. % is a special character in URIs. Let me try posting it inside of back ticks, as well as triple back ticks:
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%sI've noticed that there's a plague of threadiverse clients which improperly escape/encode URIs. It's most evident with how they mangle parenthesis in Wikipedia article titles.