# HOW TO: Avoid URL encoding of special characters

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**Created:** [July 16, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://connective.celigo.com/t/how-to-avoid-url-encoding-of-special-characters/1414 "2020-07-16T21:50:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://connective.celigo.com/t/how-to-avoid-url-encoding-of-special-characters/1414/1 "2020-07-16T21:50:54Z")

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While this formula works if you don't have special characters like apostrophes in your values:

```
 {{trim (split supervisor "," 1)}} {{split supervisor "," 0}}
```

that doesn't help when dealing with more complex values, like O'Shanahan, as it will render the hex value for the apostrophe (Edward O'Shanahan). {{ }} will URLencode any URL-encodable characters, while {{{ }}} will remove the URL encoding. In this case, use

```
{{trim (split supervisor "," 1)}} {{{split supervisor "," 0}}}, 
```

which will give you Edward O'Shanahan.