What is 2C in a URL

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I m trying to understand the structure of a URL  and I m seeing a lot of  2C  I m guessing this is a result of some encoding  What does that stand for

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Check out http   www asciitable com   Look at the Hx   Hex  column  2C maps to    Any unusual encoding can be checked this way   ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- -----    Hx   Chr   Hx   Chr   Hx   Chr   Hx   Chr    ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- -----    00   NUL   20   SPC   40         60           01   SOH   21         41    A    61    a      02   STX   22         42    B    62    b      03   ETX   23         43    C    63    c      04   EOT   24         44    D    64    d      05   ENQ   25         45    E    65    e      06   ACK   26     amp     46    F    66    f      07   BEL   27         47    G    67    g      08   BS    28         48    H    68    h      09   TAB   29         49    I    69    i      0A   LF    2A         4A    J    6A    j      0B   VT    2B         4B    K    6B    k      0C   FF    2C         4C    L    6C    l      0D   CR    2D    -    4D    M    6D    m      0E   SO    2E         4E    N    6E    n      0F   SI    2F         4F    O    6F    o      10   DLE   30    0    50    P    70    p      11   DC1   31    1    51    Q    71    q      12   DC2   32    2    52    R    72    r      13   DC3   33    3    53    S    73    s      14   DC4   34    4    54    T    74    t      15   NAK   35    5    55    U    75    u      16   SYN   36    6    56    V    76    v      17   ETB   37    7    57    W    77    w      18   CAN   38    8    58    X    78    x      19   EM    39    9    59    Y    79    y      1A   SUB   3A         5A    Z    7A    z      1B   ESC   3B         5B         7B           1C   FS    3C     lt     5C         7C           1D   GS    3D         5D         7D           1E   RS    3E     gt     5E         7E           1F   US    3F         5F         7F   DEL    ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- -----

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It s the ASCII keycode in hexadecimal for a comma       i e          2C  like in my link suppose i want to order by two fields means in my link it will come like  order by id 2Cname which is equal to order by id name

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Another technique that you can use to get the symbol from url gibberish is to open Chrome console with F12 and just paste following javascript   decodeURIComponent   2c     it will decode and return the symbol  or symbols      Hope this saves you some time

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The  2C translates to a comma      I saw this while searching for a sentence with a comma in it and on the url  instead of showing a comma  it had  2C

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It s the ASCII keycode in hexadecimal for a comma       You should use your language s URL encoding methods when placing strings in URLs   You can see a handy list of characters with man ascii  It has this compact diagram available for mapping hexadecimal codes to the character      2 3 4 5 6 7         -------------       0    0   P   p      1    1 A Q a q      2    2 B R b r      3    3 C S c s      4    4 D T d t      5    5 E U e u      6   amp  6 F V f v      7    7 G W g w      8    8 H X h x      9    9 I Y i y      A      J Z j z B      K   k   C     lt  L   l   D  -   M   m   E     gt  N   n   F      O   o DEL   You can also quickly check a character s hexadecimal equivalent with     echo -n     xxd -p 2c

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In Firefox there is Ctrl Shift K for the Web console  then you type   decodeURIComponent   2c     mind the semicolon in the beginning if you Copy Paste  you should first enable it  the console will warn you    and you get the answer

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Simple  amp  Easy answer   The  2C means   comma in URL  when you add the String  abc defg  in the url as parameter then that comma in the string which is abc   defg is changed to abc 2Cdefg  There is no need to worry about it

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