What is URL/URI encoding?

Text that contains special characters, spaces, new lines, etc. very often cannot be properly used in the URL of the page. As it is a frequent problem, there is a standard way to encode text to be used in the URL. To encode text, each character is replaced by a sequence of % and two hexadecimal digits.

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%E2%80%9CA%20World%20of%20Dew%E2%80%9D%20by%20Kobayashi%20Issa%0A%0AA%20world%20of%20dew,%0A%0AAnd%20within%20every%20dewdrop%0A%0AA%20world%20of%20struggle.%20

Decoded URL text

“A World of Dew” by Kobayashi Issa

A world of dew,

And within every dewdrop

A world of struggle.

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