So I want to create a URL using URI, because I like doing that better than I like creating the URL by hand.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use English qw/-no_match_vars/;
use URI;
use URI::QueryParam;

my $uri = URI->new(q{http://foo.bar/});
$uri->path(q{/baz/bak});
my %form = (
    'quux' => 'alpha jub jub',
);
$uri->query_form(%form);

print qq{$uri\n};
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Gives me http://foo.bar/baz/bak?quux=alpha+jub+jub, when I want http://foo.bar/baz/bak?quux=alpha%20jub%20jub.

Is there a way to get URI to encode spaces in the query string using %20?