Details
This tool should only be used to encode or decode text data, including unicode. It is not suitable to work with binary data.
URL encoding, is also known as URI encoding or Percent encoding. It converts characters into a format, that only contains ASCII characters compatible with the HTTP protocol.
URL encoding replaces unsafe ASCII characters with a "%" followed by two hexadecimal digits, or Unicode characters with % followed by multiple pairs of hexadecimal digits.
Common ASCII characters that are also encoded are:
Spaceis encoded either as+sign or%20+sign is encoded as%2B/is encoded as%2F?is encoded as%3F
Other reserved characters listed by RFC 3986: !#$&'()*,:;=@[]