URL decoding converts encoded characters back to their original form, making URL encoded text readable again. URLs can only be sent over the Internet using the ASCII character-set, so special characters and non-ASCII characters must be encoded.
URL encoding converts characters into a format that can be transmitted over the Internet by replacing unsafe ASCII characters with a "%" followed by two hexadecimal digits.
Our free online URL decoder/encoder tool makes it easy to decode any URL encoded string or encode any text for URLs. It supports all standard URL encoding characters and works with UTF-8 encoding for international characters.