It's 2020. Why are web-forms still not properly escaping a "#" in a delivery address? 😠

@xinjinmeng My favorite is when a web-form accepts and escapes something in a way that gets passed through systems that just don't understand it.

For example, as a result of my desperate attempts to get my name accepted in web-forms, I've gotten mail and packages addressed to "Electric Keet _", "Electric", and my personal favorite, "Electric Keet".

@xinjinmeng Er....

That last is supposed to be "Electric​&nb​sp;​Keet" but it got auto-parsed. Zero-width spaces to the rescue?

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