In 5.3-alpha, it is no longer possible to quote the special % and # characters in a pattern replacement expansion.
$ a=1/%2/%3
$ echo "${a/\%/##}"
1/%2/%3##
$ echo "${a/\/%/##}"
1##2/%3
The second example shows that quoting still works as expected for
${PARAMETER//PATTERN/STRING}.
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