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Enumerate differences between URLSearchParams and search #495

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Enumerate differences between URLSearchParams and search
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Expand Up @@ -3102,6 +3102,23 @@ let params = new URLSearchParams({key: "730d67"})
params.toString() // "key=730d67"</code></pre>
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<p>As {{URLSearchParams}} objects use the <a><code>application/x-www-form-urlencoded</code></a>
format underneath there are some difference with how it encodes certain code points compared to
{{URL/search}}.
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<p>{{URLSearchParams}} objects will percent-encode: U+0000 NULL to U+0019 EOM, inclusive,
U+0021 (!) to U+0029 RIGHT PARENTHESIS, inclusive, U+002B (+), U+002C (,), U+002F (/), U+0040 (@),
U+005B ([]) to U+005E (^), inclusive, U+0060 (`), and anything greater than U+007A (z). And will
encode U+0020 SPACE as U+002B (+).
<!-- From https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-urlencoded-byte-serializer, inverted -->

<p>Ignoring encodings (use <a>UTF-8</a>), {{URL/search}} will percent-encode U+0000 NULL to
U+0020 SPACE, inclusive, U+0022 ("), U+0023 (#), U+0027 (') varying on <a>is special</a>,
U+003C (<), U+003E (>), and anything greater than U+007E (~).
<!-- From https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#query-state -->
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<p>A {{URLSearchParams}} object has an associated
<dfn export for=URLSearchParams id=concept-urlsearchparams-list>list</dfn> of name-value pairs,
which is initially empty.
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