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### class:URLEncoder [NONE]
public class URLEncoder extends Object Utility class for HTML form encoding. This class contains static methods for converting a String to the `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` MIME format. For more information about HTML form encoding, consult the HTML specification. When encoding a String, the following rules apply: The alphanumeric characters "`a`" through "`z`", "`A`" through "`Z`" and "`0`" through "`9`" remain the same. The special characters "`.`", "`-`", "`*`", and "`_`" remain the same. The space character " " is converted into a plus sign "`+`". All other characters are unsafe and are first converted into one or more bytes using some encoding scheme. Then each byte is represented by the 3-character string "`%xy`", where xy is the two-digit hexadecimal representation of the byte. The recommended encoding scheme to use is UTF-8. However, for compatibility reasons, if an encoding is not specified, then the default charset is used. For example using UTF-8 as the encoding scheme the string "The string ü@foo-bar" would get converted to "The+string+%C3%BC%40foo-bar" because in UTF-8 the character ü is encoded as two bytes C3 (hex) and BC (hex), and the character @ is encoded as one byte 40 (hex). Since: 1.0 See Also: `Charset.defaultCharset()`

### method:encode(java.lang.String) [NONE]
### encode @Deprecated public static String encode (String s) Deprecated. The resulting string may vary depending on the default charset. Instead, use the encode(String,String) method to specify the encoding. Translates a string into `x-www-form-urlencoded` format. This method uses the default charset as the encoding scheme to obtain the bytes for unsafe characters. Parameters: `s` - `String` to be translated. Returns: the translated `String`.

### method:encode(java.lang.String,java.lang.String) [NONE]
### encode public static String encode (String s, String enc) throws UnsupportedEncodingException Translates a string into `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` format using a specific encoding scheme. This method behaves the same as encode(String s, Charset charset) except that it will look up the charset using the given encoding name. Parameters: `s` - `String` to be translated. `enc` - The name of a supported character encoding . Returns: the translated `String`. Throws: `UnsupportedEncodingException` - If the named encoding is not supported Since: 1.4 See Also: `URLDecoder.decode(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)`

### method:encode(java.lang.String,java.nio.charset.Charset) [NONE]
### encode public static String encode (String s, Charset charset) Translates a string into `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` format using a specific Charset. This method uses the supplied charset to obtain the bytes for unsafe characters. Note: The World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation states that UTF-8 should be used. Not doing so may introduce incompatibilities. Parameters: `s` - `String` to be translated. `charset` - the given charset Returns: the translated `String`. Throws: `NullPointerException` - if `s` or `charset` is `null`. Since: 10 See Also: `URLDecoder.decode(java.lang.String, Charset)`