Antonyms for percent-decoding

Definition of percent-decoding:

Percent-decoding is the process of converting percent-encoded characters back into their original form. It is primarily used in web contexts to interpret information found in Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) or web form submissions. When data is transmitted over the internet, certain characters like spaces, symbols, or non-ASCII characters cannot be directly included in a URL. These characters are replaced with a '%' followed by two hexadecimal digits representing the character's ASCII or UTF-8 value during percent-encoding. Percent-decoding reverses this process, restoring the original characters, making the data readable and usable by applications. For example, '%20' is decoded back into a space character.