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I have a link looking like this (it's a bit ugly because it is URL ) <a href="/items?fc%5B%5D=12345&amp;fc%5B%5D=56789&amp;utf8=%E2%9C%93">foo</a> To be a bit clear, it is URL encoded and translates to <a href="/items?fc[]=12345&fc[]=56789&utf8=✓">foo</a> When the form is submitted, the destination URL looks different in different browsers: In Firefox, it looks like desired: http://mydomain/items?fc[]=12345&fc[]=56789&utf8=✓ In Chrome, the square brackets are shown URL-encoded, (which gives very ugly and non-professional looking addresses when using many of them). http://mydomain/items?fc%5B%5D=12345&fc%5B%5D=56789&utf8=✓ In IE9 (and older) everything is showed URL-encoded: http://mydomain/items?fc%5B%5D=12345&fc%5B%5D=56789&utf8=%E2%9C%93 I can live with the "utf8=..." part, since it's only a problem in IE. But none of the browsers has any problem with handling when square brackets are explicitly typed into the URL, so i don't understand why Chrome and IE, but not Firefox has to show the brackets with URL encoding. Since the form's html code is same in all browsers, i suppose that is has to do with the browsers, and not with the site (a Ruby on Rails site in this case) EDIT: So to clarify my actual questions: Why is this different? Is there a way to make it look good in at least Chrome? It can be ugly-fixed by not URL-escaping in the href="..." but i suppose that is against URL encoding rules?

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