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<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="../libraries/uri.html"><span class="doc">URI Library</span></a> used to automatically convert
a certain set of “programmatic characters” to HTML entities when they
are encountered in a URI segment.</p>
<p>This was aimed at providing some automatic XSS protection, in addition
to the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$config['permitted_uri_chars']</span></code> setting, but has proven