"~" symbol gets lost in translation

[Guest]

I have a web page with Comcast.net. The URL is:
http://home.comcast.net/~southhadleyhistoricalsociety/index.html.

I have noticed that sometimes when I copy the URL, the "~" symbol after
"comcast.net/" gets changed to "%7." Sometimes this does not present a
problem, but other times it makes the URL void.

I am stuck with Comcast's user web pages requring the "~" in the URL. Is
there some way I can protect it so that the "~" does not get inadvertently
changed to "%7"? I will appreciate advice.

 

[Gary Smith]

The substitution for the tilde should be %7E rather than %7. Is that what
you're actually getting? If so, it's nothing to worry about. Some
programs convert the tilde when transferring URLs because it has syntactic
as well as character functions. The modified URL should work correctly in
all standards-compliant software. In fact, so should
http://home.comcast.net/~southhadleyhistoricalsociety/index.html

I have a web page with Comcast.net. The URL is:
http://home.comcast.net/~southhadleyhistoricalsociety/index.html.