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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