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ARQ is a SPARQL 1.1 query engine for Apache Jena
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package org.apache.jena.sparql.util;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException ;
import java.net.URLDecoder ;
import java.net.URLEncoder ;

public class Convert
{
    // UTF-8 is required in Java implementations
 
    // Choose the characters to escape.

    // Chars from RDF 2396 to escape: 
    // 2.2. Reserved Characters
    // 2.4.3 Excluded US-ASCII Characters
    //
    // reserved    = ";" | "/" | "?" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" | "+" |
    //               "$" | ","
    //
    // control     = 
    // space       = 
    //
    // delims      = "<" | ">" | "#" | "%" | <">
    // unwise      = "{" | "}" | "|" | "\" | "^" | "[" | "]" | "`"
    //
    // These should be OK:
    //
    // unreserved  = alphanum | mark
    // mark        = "-" | "_" | "." | "!" | "~" | "*" | "'" | "(" | ")"
   
    // URLEncoder is savage:
    
    // + The alphanumeric characters "a" through "z",
    //   "A" through "Z" and "0" through "9" remain the same.
    // + The special characters ".", "-", "*", and "_" remain the same. 
    // + The space character " " is converted into a plus sign "+".
    // + All other characters are unsafe and are first converted into
    //   one or more bytes using some encoding scheme. 
    
    public static String encWWWForm(String s)
    { 
        try {
            return URLEncoder.encode(s, "UTF-8") ;
            // Can't fail - UTF-8 is required
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) { return null ;}
    }

    public static String encWWWForm(StringBuffer sbuff)
    {
        return encWWWForm(sbuff.toString()) ;
    }
    
    
    public static String decWWWForm(String s)
    {
        try {
            return URLDecoder.decode(s, "UTF-8") ;
            // Can't fail - UTF-8 is required
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) { return null ;}
    }

    public static String decWWWForm(StringBuffer sbuff)
    {
        return decWWWForm(sbuff.toString()) ;
    }
    
}