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Long explanation here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding

shorter explanation: URLs have limitations on the characters allowed in them, the workaround is to URLencode, them, e.g., replace those characters with their corresponding hexadecimal (base 16, digits go from 0-9, A-F) values, prefixed with %.

I had to deal with this recently, had a whole bunch of URLs in some JSON files that included Chinese characters, and they work fine if I manually enter/paste them in a browser because the browsers automatically URLencode them, but when used in code they failed, so I have to URLencode all of them. I use a Visual Studio Code plugin to make those corrections, but there are  also websites like this

https://www.urlencoder.io/

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Thanks for the explanation, that's a good thing to know :3
I dealt with it by changing the plugin itself, took a bit but it works fine now