Why do computers sometimes change special characters like “&” into “&” or “ ”
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It’s encoding. It represents characters, which could be volatile, as benign strings.
A good example of this is < and > characters. Left as they are could easily break an HTML web page or XML document. Encoded, they are harmless.
When *we* see them, it’s because decoding failed or the page didn’t load correctly.
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