{"id": "internals:internals-tilde-encoding", "page": "internals", "ref": "internals-tilde-encoding", "title": "Tilde encoding", "content": "Datasette uses a custom encoding scheme in some places, called  tilde encoding . This is primarily used for table names and row primary keys, to avoid any confusion between  /  characters in those values and the Datasette URLs that reference them. \n                 Tilde encoding uses the same algorithm as  URL percent-encoding , but with the  ~  tilde character used in place of  % . \n                 Any character other than  ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_-  will be replaced by the numeric equivalent preceded by a tilde. For example: \n                 \n                     \n                         /  becomes  ~2F \n                     \n                     \n                         .  becomes  ~2E \n                     \n                     \n                         %  becomes  ~25 \n                     \n                     \n                         ~  becomes  ~7E \n                     \n                     \n                         Space becomes  + \n                     \n                     \n                         polls/2022.primary  becomes  polls~2F2022~2Eprimary \n                     \n                 \n                 Note that the space character is a special case: it will be replaced with a  +  symbol. \n                 \n                 \n                 \n                     datasette.utils. tilde_encode s :   str str \n                     \n                         Returns tilde-encoded string - for example  /foo/bar  ->  ~2Ffoo~2Fbar \n                     \n                 \n                 \n                 \n                 \n                     datasette.utils. tilde_decode s :   str str \n                     \n                         Decodes a tilde-encoded string, so  ~2Ffoo~2Fbar  ->  /foo/bar", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Internals for plugins\", \"The datasette.utils module\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/percent-encoding\", \"label\": \"URL percent-encoding\"}]"}