URL Encode Alternatives

encodedtitle.sh

title="something horrible!"

encodedtitle=`echo "$title" | jq -s -R -r @uri`
	
# need to install URI::Escape
#perl -MURI::Escape -e 1
#if [ $? != 0 ];
#then
#	echo "installing dependencies"
#	PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'install URI::Escape'
#fi
encodedtitle=`perl -MURI::Escape -e 'print uri_escape($ARGV[0]);' "$title"`
  
encodedtitle=`python -c "import sys, urllib as ul; print ul.quote_plus(sys.argv[1])" $title`

to encode a value that will be used in a URL , for example

http://domain/resouce/to/fetch/with/title/$title

when title is a horrible thing