Javascript encodeURIComponent doesn't encode single quotes

Question

Try it out:

encodeURIComponent(\"\'@#$%^&\");

If you try this out you will see all the special characters are encoded except for the single

Answer 1

I'm not sure why you would want them to be encoded. If you only want to escape single quotes, you could use .replace(/'/g, "%27"). However, good references are:

• When are you supposed to use escape instead of encodeURI / encodeURIComponent?
• Comparing escape(), encodeURI(), and encodeURIComponent() at xkr.us
• Javascript Madness: Query String Parsing #Javascript Encode/Decode Functions