Reserved characters in path is not encoded

[anti-social]

Ktor client version: 1.2.3

URLBuilder(host = "localhost").apply {
    path("?")
    parameters["?"] = "?"
}
    .buildString()
    .also(::println)

will produce:

http://localhost/??%3F=%3F

I would expect the following url:

http://localhost/%3F?%3F=%3F

URLBuilder uses encodeURLQueryComponent function to encode a path: https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/blob/1.2.3/ktor-http/common/src/io/ktor/http/URLBuilder.kt#L50
Possibly it should use encodeURLPath?

Not sure it is a bug, but a feature. Fixing it will break backward compatibility.

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[oleg-larshin]

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