TO-URL returns incorrect value for % symbol

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Submitted by: johnk

TO-URL does not encode % correctly when passed in a string or char

Reference to discussion on google groups:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rebol/rquLOryb5nM/Srahpr_71-0J

In R2
>> to-url #"%"
== %
In R3
>> to-url #"%"
== %25

^{CC - Data [ Version: r3 master Type: Bug Platform: All Category: Native Reproduce: Always Fixed-in:none ]}

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Submitted by: Ladislav

This may as well be just a MOLD bug, I do not think the TO-URL behaviour is incorrect.

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Submitted by: johnk

Reading this I agree that this should not be a bug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding

Equivalent code in ruby

>> URI::encode "%"
=> "%"

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Submitted by: BrianH

TO-URL, like all of the TO-datatype functions, only does datatype conversion. It doesn't and is not supposed to do any encoding. R3 has encoding bugs (there are many tickets about this) but it's not TO-URL's fault.

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Submitted by: johnk

Thanks for the clarification Brian

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Submitted by: Ladislav

See #2010, #2011 and #2012.

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Submitted by: BrianH

See #482, #1327, #1333 and #1644 for the existing tickets.