.. _global.encodeURIComponent:

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global.encodeURIComponent
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   :ref:`string` **encodeURIComponent** (:ref:`string` **text**)


Parameters
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| **text** | The text to encode. |
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Description
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Encodes a string after RFC2396.

Create an UTF-8 ASCII encoded version of this string. The string is converted into UTF-8. Every non-alphanumeric character is encoded as a percent escape character of the form %xx, where xx is the hex value of the character. After the conversion to UTF-8 encoding and escaping, it is guaranteed that the string does not contain characters codes greater than 127. The list of characters not to be encoded is -_.!~*'(). The method returns false on errors.