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Sep 19, 2018 · Fundamentals

Understanding URL Encoding: escape, encodeURI, encodeURIComponent, Percent‑Encoding, ASCII, Unicode and UTF‑8

This article explains the differences between JavaScript's escape, encodeURI and encodeURIComponent functions, the principles of percent‑encoding, the classification of reserved, unreserved and unsafe characters, and provides an overview of ASCII, Unicode and UTF‑8 character encodings.