How to do URL decoding in Java?

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This does not have anything to do with character encodings such as UTF-8 or ASCII. The string you have there is URL encoded. This kind of encoding is something entirely different than character encoding.

Try something like this:

try {
    String result = java.net.URLDecoder.decode(url, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
    // not going to happen - value came from JDK's own StandardCharsets
}

Java 10 added direct support for Charset to the API, meaning there’s no need to catch UnsupportedEncodingException:

String result = java.net.URLDecoder.decode(url, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

Note that a character encoding (such as UTF-8 or ASCII) is what determines the mapping of characters to raw bytes. For a good intro to character encodings, see this article.

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