URLs can only be sent over the Internet using the ASCII character-set. Since URLs often contain characters outside the ASCII set, the URL has to be converted into a valid ASCII format. URL encoding replacesunsafe ASCII characters with a "%" followed by two hexadecimal digits.
URL encode your data in a hassle-free way, or decode it into human-readable format. URL encoding, also known as percent-encoding, is a mechanism for encoding information in a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) under certain circumstances.
Encoding - percent encoding
URLs can only be sent over the Internet using the
ASCII character-set. Since URLs often contain charactersoutsidethe ASCII set, theURL has to be converted into a valid ASCIIformat. URL encodingreplacesunsafeASCII characters witha "%" followed by two hexadecimal digits.URL
encodeyour data in ahassle-freeway, ordecodeit intohuman-readableformat. URLencoding, also known aspercent-encoding, is a mechanism for encoding information in a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) under certain circumstances.ASCII Encoding Reference
Reference
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL