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<p dir="auto">Technically, yes. <code class="notranslate">%2E</code> is <code class="notranslate">.</code>. See <a href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt" rel="nofollow">RFC3986</a> section 2.1 for details (<em>all</em> ASCII characters can be URL encoded, syntax is <code class="notranslate">%<char hex></code>)</p>
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<p dir="auto">I was just reading section 2.3 "Unreserved Characters" and this concerns me:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Characters that are allowed in a URI but do not have a reserved purpose are called unreserved.  These include uppercase and lowercase letters, decimal digits, hyphen, period, underscore, and tilde.</p>
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<blockquote>
<p dir="auto">URIs that differ in the replacement of an unreserved character with its corresponding percent-encoded US-ASCII octet are equivalent: they identify the same resource.</p>
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<p dir="auto">It then goes on to say:</p>
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<p dir="auto">[they] should not be created by URI producers and, when found in a URI, should be decoded to their corresponding unreserved characters by URI normalizers.</p>
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<p dir="auto">So that sounds like <code class="notranslate">gps.trace.visibility</code> and <code class="notranslate">gps%2Etrace%2Evisibility</code> will be treated as the same thing, and so we can't tell use the urlencode approach for these unreserved characters.</p>

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