launch URL not working with a # character in the URL string

[Mark E. Powell]

Sorry...reposting.  My real URL is an internal one and in making it a generic example, I left out the page part of the URL.  There is, of course, a page and it has an anchor statement.  But the problem is that the hash symbol gets escaped to a %23.  So, I still have the problem.  Here is my revised pseudo example:

The call

launch URL "http://www.example.com/blah.html#foo"

brings up a browser window, but with the URL

http://www.example.com/blah.html%23foo

which yields a File Not Found error. How do I force Rev not to URLEncode the URL< It does seem to escape question marks or other delimiters, but does with the hash mark. 

Or in fact is this a browser issue solely?

Thanks in advance

Mark