Say I have a URL

http://example.com/query?q=

and I have a query entered by the user such as:

random word £500 bank $

I want the result to be a properly encoded URL:

http://example.com/query?q=random%20word%20%A3500%20bank%20%24

What's the best way to achieve this? I tried URLEncoder and creating URI/URL objects but none of them come out quite right.

java http url encoding urlencode
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