So, CGI also stopped doing URL escaping itself, now delegating that feature to URI::Escape.

No, CGI has forever delegated the job to CGI::Util::escape()

Clearly, URI knows how to construct URLs. Of course it does. Sadly, it doesn't appear to know anything about CGI parameters in a URL.

Actually it does, see "query_form", but it is PITA ( no state, one-shot replacements), that is why URI::QueryParam, which while more convenient, still kind of a PITA

You can use CGI for this 

$ perl -l
use CGI;
my $queryParams = { a => [qw/ a >< a/], qw/ b b><b c c><c / };
print CGI->new( $queryParams )-> query_string;
__END__
c=c%3E%3Cc;a=a;a=%3E%3C;a=a;b=b%3E%3Cb

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Badger::URL looked interesting, but naturally, like all interesting things, it doesn't handle something, it doesn't handle multivalued params like  fa=a;fa=b;fa=c;

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in thread Links between Mason components? by tye

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