Crawl and indexing
URL Encoder and Decoder
Encode Arabic URLs as UTF-8 percent-encoding, or decode them back to readable text.
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How to use
- Paste one URL, path or value per line.
- Choose Encode a URL or path, Encode a value, or Decode.
- Read the result in the output box, with a count of the lines that changed.
- Copy the output into your sitemap, redirect rule or link.
What it checks and how it works
Percent-encoding writes each byte of a character's UTF-8 form as %XX, as defined in RFC 3986. A URL path in Arabic, such as نعناع, becomes %D9%86%D8%B9%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B9. Google's URL structure guidance recommends percent-encoding non-ASCII characters in links, and recommends words in your audience's language in the URL.
The URL mode keeps the structure: scheme, host, slashes and the ? and & of the query stay as they are, and each path segment and query value is encoded. The value mode encodes everything except letters, digits and - _ . ~, as encodeURIComponent does. Hex digits are written in upper case.
Sources
- RFC 3986: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax opened 29 Oct 2026
- Google Search Central: URL structure best practices for Google Search opened 29 Oct 2026
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Questions
About this tool
Google's guidance says to use words in your audience's language in the URL, and to percent-encode non-ASCII characters in links. Both work. Pick one pattern per site and keep it consistent.
Browsers display the decoded form in the address bar but send the percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes. The logs show what was sent.
Use Encode a value. It also encodes characters such as / ? & and =, which would otherwise end or split the parameter.
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