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when i open an irc link with a channel name that contains "~" at the end, firefox (14.0.1) opens the same channel name but with "%7E" instead of "~" at the end

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when i open an irc link with a channel name that contains "~" at the end firefox (14.0.1) opens the same channel name but with "%7E" instead of "~" at the end http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/2856/clipboard05nq.jpg

when i open an irc link with a channel name that contains "~" at the end firefox (14.0.1) opens the same channel name but with "%7E" instead of "~" at the end http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/2856/clipboard05nq.jpg

Isisombululo esikhethiwe

I can not open the image, but I can say something in general about the tilde.
The tilde "~" is an unreserved character and therefore it can be replaced by its percent-encoded form "%7E" inside a URI without changing meaning. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding
According to section 2.3 of RFC3986 we should prefer the unencoded form so this behavior seems to be a bit out-dated.

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Isisombululo Esikhethiwe

I can not open the image, but I can say something in general about the tilde.
The tilde "~" is an unreserved character and therefore it can be replaced by its percent-encoded form "%7E" inside a URI without changing meaning. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding
According to section 2.3 of RFC3986 we should prefer the unencoded form so this behavior seems to be a bit out-dated.