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The IANA registration of "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" point to the actual definition of the media type. The way it is written now requires doing a full text search in the spec.
The right place to look at seems to be ... <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#application-x-www-form-urlencoded-encoding-algorithm>
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r6751. Check-in comment: xref http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6750&to=6751