If your routeParam was read by the browser to be a URI encoded,
routeParams still returns a URI encoded string

I think routeParams should return a decoded URI string. Otherwise, I think there should be some sort of setting to decode or encode by default.

Example,

I have a url of http://localhost:7000/handle/rm%7Copenworld

The route pattern looks like

handle/:handleId

thus

routeParams.params["handleId"] == 'rm%7Copenworld'

However the decodedURI that was given to the browser is rm|openworld