encodeURIComponent equivalent in Java

[Zidaan]

Is there an equivalent for encodeURIComponent in Java?

[MindSpace]

Do you think you could explain in detail what it does or give a link to some documentation of this function? It would make it much easier for people to answer your question.

[Zidaan]

encodeURIComponent is a JavaScript URI Encoding function.

See:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...icomponent.asp

[Zecho]

I'm not sure about the subtle differences between URI and URL. But I think URLEncoder.encode(String) is roughly what you want.

<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/net/URLEncoder.html#encode(java.lang.String)>

[kelfro]

Since I'm UTF-8, I will add that URLEncoder.encode(x, "UTF-8") will ensure all non-ASCII characters are also escaped in byte pairs (see http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/appendix...on-ascii-chars.

After many hours of pondering this character set problem () I discovered that the standard is and doesn't allow character sets other than US-ASCII in the URL. So the above way is the defacto standard.

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