escape() 方法：采用ISO Latin字符集對指定的字符串進行編碼。所有的空格符、標點符號、特殊字符以及其他非ASCII字符都將被轉化成%xx格式的字符編碼（xx等於該字符在字符集表裡面的編碼的16進制數字）。比如，空格符對應的編碼是%20。unescape方法與此相反。不會被此方法編碼的字符： @ * / +
英文解釋：MSDN JScript Reference: The escape method returns a string value (in Unicode format) that contains the contents of [the argument]. All spaces, punctuation, accented characters, and any other non-ASCII characters are replaced with %xx encoding, where xx is equivalent to the hexadecimal number representing the character. For example, a space is returned as "%20."
Edge Core Javascript Guide: The escape and unescape functions let you encode and decode strings. The escape function returns the hexadecimal encoding of an argument in the ISO Latin character set. The unescape function returns the ASCII string for the specified hexadecimal encoding value.
encodeURI() 方法：把URI字符串采用UTF-8編碼格式轉化成escape格式的字符串。不會被此方法編碼的字符：! @ # $& * ( ) = : / ; ? + '
英文解釋：MSDN JScript Reference: The encodeURI method returns an encoded URI. If you pass the result to decodeURI, the original string is returned. The encodeURI method does not encode the following characters: ":", "/", ";", and "?". Use encodeURIComponent to encode these characters. Edge Core Javascript Guide: Encodes a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) by replacing each instance of certain characters by one, two, or three escape sequences representing the UTF-8 encoding of the character
encodeURIComponent() 方法：把URI字符串采用UTF-8編碼格式轉化成escape格式的字符串。與encodeURI()相比，這個方法將對更多的字符進行編碼，比如 / 等字符。所以如果字符串裡面包含了URI的幾個部分的話，不能用這個方法來進行編碼，否則 / 字符被編碼之後URL將顯示錯誤。不會被此方法編碼的字符：! * ( )
英文解釋：MSDN JScript Reference: The encodeURIComponent method returns an encoded URI. If you pass the result to decodeURIComponent, the original string is returned. Because the encodeURIComponent method encodes all characters, be careful if the string represents a path such as /folder1/folder2/default.html. The slash characters will be encoded and will not be valid if sent as a request to a web server. Use the encodeURI method if the string contains more than a single URI component. Mozilla Developer Core Javascript Guide： Encodes a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) component by replacing each instance of certain characters by one, two, or three escape sequences representing the UTF-8 encoding of the character.
復制代碼 代碼如下:因此，對於中文字符串來說，如果不希望把字符串編碼格式轉化成UTF-8格式的（比如原頁面和目標頁面的charset是一致的時候），只需要使用escape。如果你的頁面是GB2312或者其他的編碼，而接受參數的頁面是UTF-8編碼的，就要采用encodeURI或者encodeURIComponent。
另外，encodeURI/encodeURIComponent是在javascript1.5之後引進的，escape則在javascript1.0版本就有。
英文注釋：The escape() method does not encode the + character which is interpreted as a space on the server side as well as generated by forms with spaces in their fields. Due to this shortcoming, you should avoid use of escape() whenever possible. The best alternative is usually encodeURIComponent().Use of the encodeURI() method is a bit more specialized than escape() in that it encodes for URIs [REF] as opposed to the querystring, which is part of a URL. Use this method when you need to encode a string to be used for any resource that uses URIs and needs certain characters to remain un-encoded. Note that this method does not encode the ' character, as it is a valid character within URIs.Lastly, the encodeURIComponent() method should be used in most cases when encoding a single component of a URI. This method will encode certain chars that would normally be recognized as special chars for URIs so that many components may be included. Note that this method does not encode the ' character, as it is a valid character within URIs.