diff --git a/typo3/jsfunc.tbe_editor.js b/typo3/jsfunc.tbe_editor.js
index a9ec483..cc0316b 100644
--- a/typo3/jsfunc.tbe_editor.js
+++ b/typo3/jsfunc.tbe_editor.js
@@ -538,11 +538,7 @@ var TBE_EDITOR = {
 	rawurlencode: function(str,maxlen) {
 		var output = str;
 		if (maxlen)	output = output.substr(0,200);
-		output = escape(output);
-		output = TBE_EDITOR.str_replace("*","%2A", output);
-		output = TBE_EDITOR.str_replace("+","%2B", output);
-		output = TBE_EDITOR.str_replace("/","%2F", output);
-		output = TBE_EDITOR.str_replace("@","%40", output);
+		output = Ext.urlEncode({'' : str});
 		return output;
 	},
 	str_replace: function(match,replace,string) {