What's the difference vs full URL encoding?

Component encoding targets values; be careful not to encode an entire URL structure unless you mean to.

Yes. Encode and decode URLs online free.

Does it support Unicode?

Yes. Non-ASCII characters are percent-encoded properly.

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encodeURIComponent / decodeURIComponent

60 chars

Encoded

https%3A%2F%2Fbrowsertools.tech%2Ftools%3Fq%3Dhello%20world%26from%3Dweb%20tools

80 chars