Enter the text that you wish to encode or decode:
If you wish to encode or decode a line or paragraph of text, then you can use this free online tool. In the first step, you can convert the given data strings to a string to-byte by using UTF-8 encoding in the second step convert, all the bytes in %HH except the ASCII letters and digits that are used in your data. By this free utility, you can encode or decode a string so that it matches the Uniform Resource Locators Specification - URL (RFC 1738). To learn more about URL encoding, you can Google the term “Encodes or decodes”.
URL encoding and URL decoding can easily, modify a string so that it respects the convention forced by the Uniform Resource Locators requirement. The RFC 1738 URL specification states that only a little set of characters be able to be used in a URL construction.
The upper-case letters (A to Z), lower-case letters (a to Z), digits/ numbers (0 to 9), as well as numerous ‘reserved’ signs/symbols (period, closing/opening bracket, dollar sign, underscore, single quote, plus sign, asterisk, exclamation, (-) Hyphen) can be included in this conversion system.
Reserved characters list, their purpose with encoding:
|
Character |
Purpose in URL |
Character encode |
|
/ |
Used to separate domains & directories |
%2F |
|
# |
Separates anchors |
%23 |
|
+ |
Indicates a space |
%2B |
|
% |
Indicates an encoded character |
%25 |
|
@ |
Separate user & pass details from the domain |
%40 |
|
: |
Separate protocol from address |
%3B |
|
<space> |
Space, is not recommended in URLs |
+ or %20 |
|
? |
Separate query string |
%3F |
The URL specification RFC 1738 system clearly explains that only a small number of specific characters can be used in URL Encoding. These characters are listed here:
All offending characters are replaced by a % and a two-digit hexadecimal value that represents the character in the proper ISO character set. Here are a couple of examples: