Passing characters in URL

Hi all
Was just wondering if there is any way of getting past
passing specific characters in the URL..
On my music website I have found that if a song has # or
& or ( or ' in the title, the link will not work...
for example if you navigate to the release named funeral on
the link below, and click any song with the # symbol in the title
it wont work..
heres the link
linky
many thanks

> i get an error message on the page...
What is the error message? It works fine with a title like
"Neighborhood #1 (tunnels)".
> the page shows, but theres no info on the page...
That's probably because you're not using URLEncodedFormat.
Parameter values (with # signs, spaces, etc) may not be pass
correctly if they aren't properly encoded.
In any case a better method is to pass the song id, not the
title. For example, if your table contains two columns:
SongID , SongTitle
22, Neighborhood #1 (tunnels)
You should pass the ID (22) as url parameter.

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