ENCODEURL

The Registry of the National Internet Domain of Serbia (RNIDS) has been supporting Cyrillic (.срб) domains for some time, which is a good way to promote Serbian alphabet. The Internet also supports a number of other fonts that you can use freely within the Internet browser, but there are situations when it is necessary to “translate” terms in other languages into one understandable to computer, the so-called Pun Code. To perform this we use the ENCODEURL function.

This function has been available to Excel users since version 2013. It is very easy to use and has only one argument, the text that needs to be translated. For example. if we enter the formula:

=ENCODEURL(“рнидс.срб”)

the result is a code that corresponds to the given Cyrillic address. This code can later be used in places where Cyrillic is not supported, e.g. in case we have a Latin domain and we want to add Cyrillic as its alias in cPanel.