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Percent-encoding, also known as URL encoding, is a mechanism for encoding information in a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) under certain circumstances. Although it is known as URL encoding it is, in fact, used more generally within the main Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) set, which includes both Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and Uniform Resource Name (URN). As such, it is also used in the preparation of data of the application/x-www-form-urlencoded media type, as is often used in the submission of HTML form data in HTTP requests.


URL Encode/Decode

Type Something and Click startConverting

Encode/Decode Options enCodeURL deCodeURL
Encoding/Decoding Scheme ASCII UTF-8 UTF-16 ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-2 ISO-8859-6 ISO-8859-15 Windows-1252
Reserved Characters
The purpose of reserved characters is to provide a set of delimiting
characters that are distinguishable from other data within a URI.
reserved = gen-delims / sub-delims
gen-delims = ":" / "/" / "?" / "#" / "[" / "]" / "@"
sub-delims = "!" / "$" / "&" / "'" / "(" / ")" / "*" / "+" / "," / ";" / "="

Percent-Encoding
A percent-encoded octet is encoded as a character triplet, consisting of the percent character "%" followed by the two hexadecimal digits representing that octet's numeric value for example the percent-encoding for the binary octet "00100000" (ABNF: %x20), which in US-ASCII corresponds to the space character (SP)
Because the percent ("%") character serves as the indicator for percent-encoded octets, it must be percent-encoded as "%25" for that
octet to be used as data within a URI.

The reserved character /, for example, if used in the "path" component of a URI,
has the special meaning of being a delimiter between path segments.
If, according to a given URI scheme, / needs to be in a path segment,
then the three characters %2F or %2f must be used in the segment instead of a raw /.

The following are two example URIs and their component parts:

         foo://example.com:8042/over/there?name=ferret#nose
         \_/   \______________/\_________/ \_________/ \__/
          |           |            |            |        |
       scheme     authority       path        query   fragment
          |   _____________________|__
         / \ /                        \
         urn:example:animal:ferret:nose