Using special symbols '|' in bookmarks

One webpage I use a lot, after clicking some options, generates a URL with the | symbol. When I bookmark the page, then go to show all bookmarks, the URL has been changed, replacing | with %7C. I can edit the stored URL, changing it back to |, but when I select that bookmark Safari puts %7C in the URL again. Anyway to stop this?
(And I know what that 7C is ASCII for the | symbol)

Not particularly the solution I was looking for, but Chrome does not seem to have this problem, I haven't tested other web browsers.

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