escape, encodeURI or encodeURIComponent?

[Max]

I have to encode (and decode) a URI in US-ASCII. What is the correct
encoder (and decoder) between escape(), encodeURI() and
encodeURIComponent()?

Max

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

I have to encode (and decode) a URI in US-ASCII. What is the correct
encoder (and decoder) between escape(), encodeURI() and
encodeURIComponent()?

The one that works in the respective execution environment, in the order
encodeURI(), escape(), and decodeURI(), unescape(). Because the former is
standardized in each case, the latter is not.

encodeURIComponent/decodeURIComponent (standardized) is, as the name says,
designed for URI components such as query part values.

See also esc() in http://PointedEars.de/scripts/string.js


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