percent-encode

English

Verb

percent-encode (third-person singular simple present percent-encodes, present participle percent-encoding, simple past and past participle percent-encoded)

  1. (computing, Internet, transitive) To convert special or reserved characters in a string (such as spaces, slashes or query symbols) into a safe format for use in URLs or URIs, by replacing each with a percent sign followed by two hexadecimal digits representing its byte value.

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