Fastest way to encode cyrillic letters for url

Question

If you copy the link below into the browser

http://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/Беларусь 

it will show the Wiki article. But once you want to copy th

Answer 1

The function you're searching for is encodeURIComponent.

encodeURIComponent("Беларусь");
// returns "%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%8C"

Its counterpart is decodeURIComponent which reverses this process.

decodeURIComponent("%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%8C");
// returns "Беларусь"