Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* Copyright (C) 2012 cloudbase.io This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException; import java.net.URLEncoder; import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP; public class Main { public static String encode(final String content, final String encoding) { try { return URLEncoder.encode(content, encoding != null ? encoding : HTTP.DEFAULT_CONTENT_CHARSET); } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException problem) { throw new IllegalArgumentException(problem); } } }