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Bash urlencode and urldecode
urlencode() {
# urlencode <string>
old_lc_collate=$LC_COLLATE
LC_COLLATE=C
local length="${#1}"
for (( i = 0; i < length; i++ )); do
local c="${1:$i:1}"
case $c in
[a-zA-Z0-9.~_-]) printf '%s' "$c" ;;
*) printf '%%%02X' "'$c" ;;
esac
done
LC_COLLATE=$old_lc_collate
}
urldecode() {
# urldecode <string>
local url_encoded="${1//+/ }"
printf '%b' "${url_encoded//%/\\x}"
}
@ThePredators
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This works for me.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/296536/how-to-urlencode-data-for-curl-command

rawurlencode() {
  local string="${1}"
  local strlen=${#string}
  local encoded=""
  local pos c o

  for (( pos=0 ; pos<strlen ; pos++ )); do
     c=${string:$pos:1}
     case "$c" in
        [-_.~a-zA-Z0-9] ) o="${c}" ;;
        * )               printf -v o '%%%02x' "'$c"
     esac
     encoded+="${o}"
  done
  echo "${encoded}"    # You can either set a return variable (FASTER) 
  REPLY="${encoded}"   #+or echo the result (EASIER)... or both... :p
}

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milahu commented Sep 7, 2022

@ThePredators this breaks on unicode

input: a:/b c?d=e&f#g-+-`-´-ä-€
input hex:
\x61\x3A\x2F\x62\x20\x63\x3F\x64\x3D\x65\x26\x66\x23\x67\x2D\x2B\x2D\x60\x2D\xC2\xB4\x2D\xC3\xA4\x2D\xE2\x82\xAC
input hexdump:
00000000  61 3a 2f 62 20 63 3f 64  3d 65 26 66 23 67 2d 2b  |a:/b c?d=e&f#g-+|
00000010  2d 60 2d c2 b4 2d c3 a4  2d e2 82 ac              |-`-..-..-...|
0000001c
actual:   a%3A%2Fb%20c%3Fd%3De%26f%23g-%2B-%60-%B4-%E4-%20AC
expected: a%3A%2Fb%20c%3Fd%3De%26f%23g-%2B-%60-%C2%B4-%C3%A4-%E2%82%AC

see my updated answer

@oijkn
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oijkn commented Oct 3, 2022

@ThePredators works like a charm 👍

@Twibow
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Twibow commented Nov 7, 2022

Hi,

Characters used in France are not taken into account: (é è à ù ê â û ...) if you work in fr_FR locale.

You need to convert your data source from Windows-1252 to UTF-8 before entering in the function ::

data_utf8=$(echo "$data_ISO" | iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8)

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