It's probably because almost half! of the global objects in JavaScript 
(mandated by spec) are functions dedicated to encoding and decoding that 
precise type of string, and the node developers didn't want to presuppose 
which of those you did or didn't use
>
>
escape
unescape
encodeURI
decodeURI
encodeURIComponent
decodeURIComponent

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