3 Answers. Sorted by: 9. They are URL encoded characters. %3C is . More info on URL Encoding, and a chart of some of the lower ASCII values. answered Nov 18, 2008 at 3:09. Chris Marasti-Georg. 34.6k 17 93 137. 6. More @Wikipedia
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