getting invalid port error when there are special characters in password

[amirongit]

I'm using gobang to connect to a postgresql database; my user has a hash character in it's password (#) and when I open gobang and try to connect to the database provided in the configuration file, it gives me an "invalid port number" error.
but when the special character is removed from the provided password in the configuration file, I get the authentication failed error which should happen and is correct. so I'm guessing that the issue can be reproduced by putting an special character in the password field of the configuration section of your connection.

[hanzy1110]

Experiencing the same here with MySQL

[emerson-argueta]

Same issue, we can try to fix the issue by using URL encoding for the connection string