# Automatic encoding of parsed URL params

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-encoding-of-parsed-url-params/67232
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [August 1, 2017, 9:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-encoding-of-parsed-url-params/67232 "2017-08-01T09:53:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-encoding-of-parsed-url-params/67232/41 "2017-10-27T14:27:46Z")

</div>

Can you pass me a link to your site? I’ll have a look at the topic titles to see how we can fix it.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Pad\_Pors](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pad_pors/32/52016_2.png) [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-encoding-of-parsed-url-params/67232/42 "2017-10-27T14:30:33Z")

</div>

thanks, [padpors.com](http://padpors.com).

perhaps some rails command can work out. looking for it in this topic:

> [@How to replace a string/character in topic title?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-replace-a-string-character-in-topic-title/72922):
>
> I want to replace all the - in the topic title with a single space. this command will do it for all the posts, how can I change it so that only a topic-title get affected? rake posts:remap["-"," "]

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-encoding-of-parsed-url-params/67232/43 "2017-10-27T16:38:06Z")

</div>

See also discussion here: [How to replace a string/character in topic title? - #11 by pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-replace-a-string-character-in-topic-title/72922/11)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-encoding-of-parsed-url-params/67232/44 "2025-05-15T00:30:22Z")

</div>

I think this is working now… I clicked on Blake’s onebox and rebaked and all appears to be ok.

[Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-encoding-of-parsed-url-params/67232.md?page=2)