Any way to make encodeURIComponent in JavaScript ignore certain characters?

Question

is there a way to make the method encodeURIComponent

ignore certain characters, for example if I don't want it to encode the character £

. ?

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Mo. May 18 '10 at 15:14

1 answer

Michael Haren · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-18T15:16:20+0000

This is impossible without packaging it.

Probably the safest thing to do would be ... not to. If you are a thrill seeker, just undo the parts you want to decode after you finish encoding.

Something like this might be a naive way (i.e. my way):

encodeURIComponent(uri).replace('%A3','£')