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Asked: 2026-05-16T22:59:26+00:00

I am working on a browser plugin that takes the URL of the current

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I am working on a browser plugin that takes the URL of the current page or any selected link as a parameter and send it to our server.
When characters of the basic latin alphabet are present in the url (like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle), the plugin works fine. However, when the URL contains characters from another alphabet such as http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Коляска the plugin does not work, I do use the encodeURIComponentmethod but that does not seem to solve the issue. Any idea?

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Olivier.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You probably want to use encodeURI/decodeURI, if you are trying to take a full URI with non-ASCII characters and translate it into its encoded form. These preserve special URI characters, such as : and /, instead of escaping them; it only escapes non-ASCII characters and characters that are invalid in URIs. Thus, they do essentially the same thing as typing in the address bar or putting a URI in an <a href="..."> (though the behavior might vary somewhat between browser, and isn’t exactly the same).

    encodeURIComponent is intended for encoding only a single component of a URI, replacing special characters that are meaningful in URIs, so that you can use the component as a query parameter or path component in a longer URI.

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