The /atg/endeca/url/basic/BasicUrlFormatter component is of class com.endeca.soleng.urlformatter.basic.BasicUrlFormatter. This class is responsible for serializing action strings from a navigation state, for example, ?N=4294967263. It includes properties such as defaultEncoding and prependQuestionMarks that control how the strings are generated. Out of the box these properties are set to UTF-8 and true, respectively.

For more information on the BasicUrlFormatter class, refer to the Assembler Application Developer’s Guide in the Oracle Endeca Commerce documentation.