refactor: Add internal method Utils.encodeForUrl for properly encoding email addresses for use in URLs (#9541)

src/Utils.js

@@ -399,6 +399,17 @@ class Utils {
     }
     return obj;
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Encodes a string to be used in a URL.
+   * @param {String} input The string to encode.
+   * @returns {String} The encoded string.
+   */
+  static encodeForUrl(input) {
+    return encodeURIComponent(input).replace(/[!'.()*]/g, char =>
+      '%' + char.charCodeAt(0).toString(16).toUpperCase()
+    );
+  }
 }
 
 module.exports = Utils;