title: URL Encoding—Ampersand Problem
body: <p>I'm having some trouble with some character encoding causing some problems with a search form on my website. One of the possible field values has an ampersand in it. When this is selected and a search is submitted the ampersand is encoded to: <code>%2526</code></p>
  
  <p>Upon using the pagination links at the bottom of the page and navigating to the second page in the list of results the ampersand is encoded to: <code>%26</code></p>
  
  <p>Finally...in an attempt to navigate to the 3rd page in the list the ampersand is changed back to: <code>&amp;</code> This breaks the form as it assumes there's a variable that isn't actually there. </p>
  
  <p>Why is the encoding changing? How can I fix this? Thanks for your help!</p>