Differences between encodeURI, encodeURIComponent, and escape:
Unicode characters
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As a simple example of Unicode (non-ASCII) characters, the table below shows the URL encodings
for part of the Cyrillic subset of the Unicode character set (\u0410 thru \u042F).
Note that the same Unicode character may produce the encoding
%uXXXX if you use escape and the encoding
%XX%XX if you use encodeURI or encodeURIComponent.
Importantly, the functions escape, encodeURI, and encodeURIComponent
work like that for other parts of the Unicode character set as well:
only the escape function may return the encoding of the form %uXXXX.
(See also ASCII and
upper ASCII characters.)
chr escape(chr) encodeURI(chr) encodeURIComponent(chr)
Note also that for many Unicode characters, encodeURI or encodeURIComponent
return the encoding %XX%XX%XX rather than %XX%XX, for example:
chr escape(chr) encodeURI(chr) encodeURIComponent(chr)(See Mathematical and Special Symbols for more examples.)