iCal calendars, the '&' character, and clickable URLs

Dec 04, '08 07:30:02AM

Contributed by: timjpriebe

I own a company that has an ampersand in our business name. We have our company name in some of the calendars we publish for all employees to use. When copying the URL to the clipboard (or sending the publish email), iCal does not replace the ampersand, so the resulting links do not work.

We've found that replacing the ampersand with the proper hex code (%26) will cause them to work fine in links. Although all characters are not allowed, the ones that are can be replaced using the hex codes found on this page.

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