Are there utilities to encode UTF-8 to URL format on Linux?

Question

linux

Hello.
The essence of the question is in the title: is there a terminal utility for transcoding Cyrillic from UTF-8 to URL format?
And if not, what can be used for this case?
My script should take a word as input and form a URL from it

Answer 1

urlencode , sed , pearlescent uri_escape, thousands of them .