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diff --git a/src/jalview/io/gff/GffHelperI.java b/src/jalview/io/gff/GffHelperI.java
index 7fbcf5c..387ee60 100644
--- a/src/jalview/io/gff/GffHelperI.java
+++ b/src/jalview/io/gff/GffHelperI.java
@@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ import java.util.List;
  */
 public interface GffHelperI
 {
+  /*
+   * GFF3 spec requires comma, equals, semi-colon, tab, percent characters to be
+   * encoded as %2C, %3D, %3B, %09, %25 respectively within data values
+   * see https://github.com/The-Sequence-Ontology/Specifications/blob/master/gff3.md
+   */
+  final String GFF_ENCODABLE = ",=;\t%";
 
   final String RENAME_TOKEN = "$RENAME_TO$";