Erlang escape uri for POST request

escape_uri.erl

%escape uri
escape_uri(S) when is_list(S) ->
    escape_uri(unicode:characters_to_binary(S));
escape_uri(<<C:8, Cs/binary>>) when C >= $a, C =< $z ->
    [C] ++ escape_uri(Cs);
escape_uri(<<C:8, Cs/binary>>) when C >= $A, C =< $Z ->
    [C] ++ escape_uri(Cs);
escape_uri(<<C:8, Cs/binary>>) when C >= $0, C =< $9 ->
    [C] ++ escape_uri(Cs);
escape_uri(<<C:8, Cs/binary>>) when C == $. ->
    [C] ++ escape_uri(Cs);
escape_uri(<<C:8, Cs/binary>>) when C == $- ->
    [C] ++ escape_uri(Cs);
escape_uri(<<C:8, Cs/binary>>) when C == $_ ->
    [C] ++ escape_uri(Cs);
escape_uri(<<C:8, Cs/binary>>) ->
    escape_byte(C) ++ escape_uri(Cs);
escape_uri(<<>>) ->
    "".

escape_byte(C) when C >= 0, C =< 255 ->
    [$%, hex_digit(C bsr 4), hex_digit(C band 15)].

hex_digit(N) when N >= 0, N =< 9 ->
    N + $0;
hex_digit(N) when N > 9, N =< 15 ->
    N + $a - 10.