diff --git a/datasette/views/table.py b/datasette/views/table.py
index d87ac2aa..0a7e5265 100644
--- a/datasette/views/table.py
+++ b/datasette/views/table.py
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ async def display_columns_and_rows(
                 link_template = LINK_WITH_LABEL if (label != value) else LINK_WITH_VALUE
                 display_value = markupsafe.Markup(
                     link_template.format(
-                        database=database_name,
+                        database=tilde_encode(database_name),
                         base_url=base_url,
                         table=tilde_encode(other_table),
                         link_id=tilde_encode(str(value)),
diff --git a/tests/test_table_html.py b/tests/test_table_html.py
index 3152903d..81dbaa69 100644
--- a/tests/test_table_html.py
+++ b/tests/test_table_html.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as Soup
 from .fixtures import (  # noqa
     app_client,
     make_app_client,
+    app_client_with_dot,
 )
 import pathlib
 import pytest
@@ -1291,3 +1292,9 @@ async def test_foreign_key_labels_obey_permissions(config):
         "rows": [{"id": 1, "name": "world", "a_id": 1}],
         "truncated": False,
     }
+
+
+def test_foreign_keys_special_character_in_database_name(app_client_with_dot):
+    # https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/2476
+    response = app_client_with_dot.get("/fixtures~2Edot/complex_foreign_keys")
+    assert '<a href="/fixtures~2Edot/simple_primary_key/2">world</a>' in response.text