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How do I copy an unencoded URL from my browser?

Whenever I copy and paste URLs from my browser, they end up being [percent-encoded](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding) and completely unreadable.

For example, the homepage URL of the Japanese version of Wikipedia, [https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/メインページ](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8), becomes this monstrosity:

[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8)

This happens even though the clean version of the URL displays in the browser's address bar.

Is there a quick and easy way to stop this from happening?

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