diff --git a/functions.sh b/functions.sh
index fd1399a..38f0ef7 100755
--- a/functions.sh
+++ b/functions.sh
@@ -1169,26 +1169,10 @@ EOF
 }
 
 
-urlencode() {
-    # urlencode <string>
-
-    local LANG=C
-    local length="${#1}"
-    for (( i = 0; i < length; i++ )); do
-        local c="${1:i:1}"
-        case $c in
-            [a-zA-Z0-9.~_-]) printf "$c" ;;
-            *) printf '%%%02X' "'$c" ;; 
-        esac
-    done
-}
-
-urldecode() {
-    # urldecode <string>
-
-    local url_encoded="${1//+/ }"
-    printf '%b' "${url_encoded//%/\\x}"
-}
+urlencode() { python3 -c "import sys; from urllib.parse import quote; print(quote(sys.argv[1]));" "$@"; }
+urldecode() { python3 -c "import sys; from urllib.parse import unquote; print(unquote(sys.argv[1]));" "$@"; }
+urlencodeplus() { python3 -c "import sys; from urllib.parse import quote_plus; print(quote_plus(sys.argv[1]));" "$@"; }
+urldecodeplus() { python3 -c "import sys; from urllib.parse import unquote_plus; print(unquote_plus(sys.argv[1]));" "$@"; }
 
 findlocallogins() {
     last -F -a $(for i in $(find /var/log -maxdepth 1 -name "wtmp*"|sort -h);do echo -n "-f $i ";done)|grep -v "pts/\|reboot\|wtmp"|awk '{print $4,$5,$7}'|uniq