Is there a way to encode a URL in velocity template

Question

Hi,

Excuse my ignorance but I am new to Velocity and trying to fix someone else's problem. I need to encode a URL inside the velocity template. I create a url and as part of the query string I pass in a page name a user created. This page can contain special characters like ëðû. The url would look like http://foo.com/page1/jz?page=SpecialChars_ëðû

Answer 1

To encode URL inside a template you can use:

$esc.url($myUrl)

which is a part of EscapeTool.