HttpUtility.UrlEncode not encoding single quotes

Question

I'm trying to encode a query string using the HttpUtility.UrlEncode method

The string is:

www.example.come?a=1&b='mia'&c=33

the output is:

www.example.come%3fa%3d1%26b%3d'mia'%26c%3d33

Why did the quotation marks not get encoded and is there a way for me to ensure that they do?

Maybe because `'` is a valid URL character (?) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1547899/which-characters-make-a-url-invalid — apocalypse, Jul 06 '16 at 12:30
Weird, _HttpUtility.UrlEncode("www.example.come?a=1&b='mia'&c=33)_ returns _www.example.come%3fa%3d1%26b%3d%27mia%27%26c%3d33_ here — Steve, Jul 06 '16 at 12:32

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 07 '21 at 06:06

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These characters are valid for URL according to this ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-._~:/?#[]@!$&'()*+,;=

edited Oct 07 '21 at 06:06

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answered Jul 06 '16 at 12:33

Gayan

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