Encoding scheme of DBpedia URIs

The encoding scheme of DBpedia URIs tries to be as close as possible to the Wikipedia title encoding scheme:

• The alphanumeric characters “a” through “z”, “A” through “Z” and “0” through “9” remain the same.
• The following special characters remain the same.
  • . (dot)
  • - (dash)
  • * (star)
  • / (slash)
  • : (colon)
  • _ (underscore)
  • , (comma)
  • & (ampersand)
• The space character ' ' is converted into an underscore character '_'.
  • Multiple underscores are collapsed into one.
• All other characters are first converted into one or more bytes using UTF-8 encoding. Then each byte is represented by the 3-character string "%xy", where xy is the two-digit hexadecimal representation of the byte.

Please note that within the Internationalization efforts, the encoding scheme might change.