#[BUG] Special chars in artists name

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naive panther
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Hello, I think the picture is self explanatory. I had to take the URL encoded artists name.
Thanks :)

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placid egret
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Should be enough with %2B, the extra 25 shouldn't be necessary. It seems like + in artist names lead to weird effects because it gets interpreted as a space somewhere along the line.

fluid glacier
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so i am now encoding it twice... as a cursed workaround

fluid glacier
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https://support.last.fm/t/api-and-website-are-decoding-parameters-twice/116278

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API and website are decoding parameters twice?

Hi all. Since around a week ago or so, some interesting new behavior has popped up in the Last.fm API and in the website. In query parameters, percent encoding is used for certain special characters, like +. This turns an artist with a name like ak+q into ak%2Bq, so a machine can better understand it. However, it seems I now have to encode my ...