function urlencode(text) { text = escape(text.toString()).replace(/\+/g, "%2B"); // this escapes 128 - 255, as JS uses the unicode code points for them. // This causes problems with submitting text via AJAX with the UTF-8 charset. var matches = text.match(/(%([0-9A-F]{2}))/gi); if (matches) { for (var matchid = 0; matchid < matches.length; matchid++) { var code = matches[matchid].substring(1,3); if (parseInt(code, 16) >= 128) { text = text.replace(matches[matchid], '%u00' + code); } } } text = text.replace('%25', '%u0025'); return text; }