Paragraph character in URL?

Question

I just ran across this an Google App Engine article that uses that funny backwards \'P\' character in some URL\'s (look near the top of the first code box). You know that charac

Answer 1

Escaping everything properly and dealing with divergent browser behavior is a pain: Accidental HTML entities in urls.

The odd thing in this case is that ¶m should not be recognized by the browser as ¶ and then m.