Special Characters That can be used in URL
According to the URL encoding standard (RFC 3986), the following characters are generally safe and do not need to be encoded:
- Letters
(A-Z, a-z)
- Numbers
(0-9)
- Hyphen
-
- Underscore
_
- Period
(.)
- Tilde
(~)
These characters are often referred to as "unreserved characters" in the context of URL encoding. They can be used as-is in a URL without the need for encoding.