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		e1ven on July 8, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Create a Robot Image from any text string It's doing a URL decode to store them. I think that a % is not valid in a URL.. From http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/4_URI_Recommentations.html- The percent sign ("%", ASCII 25 hex) is used as the escape character in the encoding scheme and is never allowed for anything else. I'll try to see why it's not converting it after work.

alttag on July 8, 2011 [–]

Same problem with a string of just spaces. It seems the string being hashed isn't URL-encoded first.

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