diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b9a89a8..f001908 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2303,7 +2303,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "minifier",
  "pagefind_stem 1.0.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "path-slash",
- "percent-encoding",
  "portpicker",
  "rayon",
  "regex",
diff --git a/pagefind/Cargo.toml b/pagefind/Cargo.toml
index 6204c24..586fdf2 100644
--- a/pagefind/Cargo.toml
+++ b/pagefind/Cargo.toml
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ actix-web = { version = "4", optional = true }
 actix-files = { version = "0.7", optional = true }
 lexical-core = "1.0.0"
 path-slash = "0.2"
-percent-encoding = "2"
 rayon = "1.10"
 rust-patch = "0.1.3"
 typed-builder = "0.23.2"
diff --git a/pagefind/src/fossick/mod.rs b/pagefind/src/fossick/mod.rs
index 907d3bf..229ba92 100644
--- a/pagefind/src/fossick/mod.rs
+++ b/pagefind/src/fossick/mod.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ use hashbrown::HashMap;
 use lazy_static::lazy_static;
 use pagefind_stem::{Algorithm, Stemmer};
 use path_slash::PathExt as _;
-use percent_encoding::{utf8_percent_encode, AsciiSet, CONTROLS};
 use regex::Regex;
 use std::collections::BTreeMap;
 use std::io::BufRead;
@@ -590,22 +589,6 @@ impl Fossicker {
 
 }
 
-/// The URL spec's path percent-encode set, minus `/` so that the separators
-/// between the path segments survive. `%`, `#` and `?` are already encoded one
-/// by one today; the rest of the set covers the remaining characters that a
-/// file name can carry but a URL path cannot, such as a space or a quote.
-const PATH_ENCODE_SET: &AsciiSet = &CONTROLS
-    .add(b' ')
-    .add(b'"')
-    .add(b'#')
-    .add(b'%')
-    .add(b'<')
-    .add(b'>')
-    .add(b'?')
-    .add(b'`')
-    .add(b'{')
-    .add(b'}');
-
 fn strip_index_html(url: &str) -> &str {
     if url.ends_with("/index.html") {
         &url[..url.len() - 10]
@@ -638,7 +621,7 @@ fn build_url(page_url: &Path, relative_to: Option<&Path>, options: &SearchOption
         url.to_slash_lossy().to_owned().to_string()
     };
 
-    format!("/{}", utf8_percent_encode(&final_url, PATH_ENCODE_SET))
+    format!("/{}", final_url)
 }
 
 fn normalize_content(content: &str) -> String {
@@ -1262,34 +1245,6 @@ mod tests {
         let p: PathBuf = cwd.join::<PathBuf>("hello/world/index.html".into());
         let root: PathBuf = cwd.join::<PathBuf>("hello".into());
         assert_eq!(&build_url(&p, Some(&root), &opts), "/world/");
-
-        let p: PathBuf = cwd.join::<PathBuf>("hello/world/100%/C#/why?.html".into());
-        assert_eq!(&build_url(&p, None, &opts), "/100%25/C%23/why%3F.html");
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(not(target_os = "windows"))]
-    #[test]
-    fn building_urls_with_characters_that_need_encoding() {
-        std::env::set_var("PAGEFIND_SITE", "hello/world");
-        let config =
-            PagefindInboundConfig::with_layers(&[Layer::Env(Some("PAGEFIND_".into()))]).unwrap();
-        let opts = SearchOptions::load(config).unwrap();
-
-        let cwd = std::env::current_dir().unwrap();
-
-        let p: PathBuf = cwd.join::<PathBuf>("hello/world/Müsli.html".into());
-        assert_eq!(&build_url(&p, None, &opts), "/M%C3%BCsli.html");
-
-        let p: PathBuf = cwd.join::<PathBuf>("hello/world/Müsli/index.html".into());
-        assert_eq!(&build_url(&p, None, &opts), "/M%C3%BCsli/");
-
-        let p: PathBuf = cwd.join::<PathBuf>("hello/world/a b/c#d?e.html".into());
-        assert_eq!(&build_url(&p, None, &opts), "/a%20b/c%23d%3Fe.html");
-
-        // A literal percent in the file name is encoded, so the URL points back at
-        // the file that is on disk rather than at the one it looks like it names.
-        let p: PathBuf = cwd.join::<PathBuf>("hello/world/M%C3%BCsli.html".into());
-        assert_eq!(&build_url(&p, None, &opts), "/M%25C3%25BCsli.html");
     }
 
     #[cfg(target_os = "windows")]