Let’s assume you have a human-friendly string and you want to make it a part of url. It’s not that hard:
var baseUrl : String = "http://example.com/place/" var name : String = "GALERIA DOMINIKAŃSKA" var encodedName = name.stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding) var finalUrl = baseUrl + encodedName // println(finalUrl) // http://example.com/place/GALERIA%20DOMINIKA%C5%83SKA