Why not just use URI encoding? It should work for most cases, though it's probably not 100%

I think CGI also has an escape or encode method... Update: Actually, looks like CGI just does URI encoding, too. But I don't see a method mentioned in the docs (just a quick check) that will let you do it. URI::Escape is probably the way to go.

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