The only valid characters for a URL are unreserved characters
a-zA-Z0-9_-.~ and the reserved characters !*'();:@&=+$,/?%#[] , as per
RFC 3986. Everything else must be escaped. Additionally, the # and
? always have special meaning, and the &, =, and + have special meaning
in a query string, so they too must be escaped. To make this easier,
a table of escapes is now used so that we do not have to call fmt() for
each character; if the entry is 0, no escaping is needed.