diff --git a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/net/URLEncoder.java b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/net/URLEncoder.java
index 41b9ae791fb..2f4c855af8d 100644
--- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/net/URLEncoder.java
+++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/net/URLEncoder.java
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import java.nio.charset.IllegalCharsetNameException;
 import java.nio.charset.UnsupportedCharsetException ;
 import java.util.BitSet;
 import java.util.Objects;
+import java.util.HexFormat;
 import java.util.function.IntPredicate;
 
 import jdk.internal.util.ImmutableBitSetPredicate;
@@ -81,7 +82,6 @@ import jdk.internal.util.StaticProperty;
  */
 public class URLEncoder {
     private static final IntPredicate DONT_NEED_ENCODING;
-    private static final int CASE_DIFF = ('a' - 'A');
     private static final String DEFAULT_ENCODING_NAME;
 
     static {
@@ -138,6 +138,11 @@ public class URLEncoder {
         DEFAULT_ENCODING_NAME = StaticProperty.fileEncoding();
     }
 
+    private static void encodeByte(StringBuilder out, byte b) {
+        out.append('%');
+        HexFormat.of().withUpperCase().toHexDigits(out, b);
+    }
+
     /**
      * You can't call the constructor.
      */
@@ -222,20 +227,30 @@ public class URLEncoder {
     public static String encode(String s, Charset charset) {
         Objects.requireNonNull(charset, "charset");
 
-        boolean needToChange = false;
-        StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder(s.length());
-        CharArrayWriter charArrayWriter = new CharArrayWriter();
+        int i;
+        for (i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
+            char c = s.charAt(i);
+            if (!DONT_NEED_ENCODING.test(c) || c == ' ') {
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        if (i == s.length()) {
+            return s;
+        }
 
-        for (int i = 0; i < s.length();) {
-            int c = s.charAt(i);
-            //System.out.println("Examining character: " + c);
+        StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder(s.length() << 1);
+        CharArrayWriter charArrayWriter = new CharArrayWriter();
+        if (i > 0) {
+            out.append(s, 0, i);
+        }
+
+        while (i < s.length()) {
+            char c = s.charAt(i);
             if (DONT_NEED_ENCODING.test(c)) {
                 if (c == ' ') {
                     c = '+';
-                    needToChange = true;
                 }
-                //System.out.println("Storing: " + c);
-                out.append((char)c);
+                out.append(c);
                 i++;
             } else {
                 // convert to external encoding before hex conversion
@@ -245,27 +260,14 @@ public class URLEncoder {
                      * If this character represents the start of a Unicode
                      * surrogate pair, then pass in two characters. It's not
                      * clear what should be done if a byte reserved in the
-                     * surrogate pairs range occurs outside of a legal
+                     * surrogate pairs range occurs outside a legal
                      * surrogate pair. For now, just treat it as if it were
                      * any other character.
                      */
-                    if (c >= 0xD800 && c <= 0xDBFF) {
-                        /*
-                          System.out.println(Integer.toHexString(c)
-                          + " is high surrogate");
-                        */
-                        if ( (i+1) < s.length()) {
-                            int d = s.charAt(i+1);
-                            /*
-                              System.out.println("\tExamining "
-                              + Integer.toHexString(d));
-                            */
-                            if (d >= 0xDC00 && d <= 0xDFFF) {
-                                /*
-                                  System.out.println("\t"
-                                  + Integer.toHexString(d)
-                                  + " is low surrogate");
-                                */
+                    if (Character.isHighSurrogate(c)) {
+                        if ((i + 1) < s.length()) {
+                            char d = s.charAt(i + 1);
+                            if (Character.isLowSurrogate(d)) {
                                 charArrayWriter.write(d);
                                 i++;
                             }
@@ -274,29 +276,15 @@ public class URLEncoder {
                     i++;
                 } while (i < s.length() && !DONT_NEED_ENCODING.test((c = s.charAt(i))));
 
-                charArrayWriter.flush();
                 String str = charArrayWriter.toString();
                 byte[] ba = str.getBytes(charset);
                 for (byte b : ba) {
-                    out.append('%');
-                    char ch = Character.forDigit((b >> 4) & 0xF, 16);
-                    // converting to use uppercase letter as part of
-                    // the hex value if ch is a letter.
-                    if (Character.isLetter(ch)) {
-                        ch -= CASE_DIFF;
-                    }
-                    out.append(ch);
-                    ch = Character.forDigit(b & 0xF, 16);
-                    if (Character.isLetter(ch)) {
-                        ch -= CASE_DIFF;
-                    }
-                    out.append(ch);
+                    encodeByte(out, b);
                 }
                 charArrayWriter.reset();
-                needToChange = true;
             }
         }
 
-        return (needToChange? out.toString() : s);
+        return out.toString();
     }
 }
diff --git a/test/jdk/java/net/URLEncoder/SurrogatePairs.java b/test/jdk/java/net/URLEncoder/SurrogatePairs.java
index dc715bbb3c4..da68f394507 100644
--- a/test/jdk/java/net/URLEncoder/SurrogatePairs.java
+++ b/test/jdk/java/net/URLEncoder/SurrogatePairs.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2001, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2001, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -26,11 +26,18 @@
  * @bug 4396708
  * @summary Test URL encoder and decoder on a string that contains
  * surrogate pairs.
- *
+ * @run junit SurrogatePairs
  */
 
-import java.io.*;
-import java.net.*;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.MethodSource;
+
+import java.net.URLDecoder;
+import java.net.URLEncoder;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
 
 /*
  * Surrogate pairs are two character Unicode sequences where the first
@@ -40,86 +47,42 @@ import java.net.*;
  */
 public class SurrogatePairs {
 
-    static String[] testStrings = {"\uD800\uDC00",
-                                   "\uD800\uDFFF",
-                                   "\uDBFF\uDC00",
-                                   "\uDBFF\uDFFF",
-                                   "1\uDBFF\uDC00",
-                                   "@\uDBFF\uDC00",
-                                   "\uDBFF\uDC001",
-                                   "\uDBFF\uDC00@",
-                                   "\u0101\uDBFF\uDC00",
-                                   "\uDBFF\uDC00\u0101"
-    };
-
-    static String[] correctEncodings = {"%F0%90%80%80",
-                                        "%F0%90%8F%BF",
-                                        "%F4%8F%B0%80",
-                                        "%F4%8F%BF%BF",
-                                        "1%F4%8F%B0%80",
-                                        "%40%F4%8F%B0%80",
-                                        "%F4%8F%B0%801",
-                                        "%F4%8F%B0%80%40",
-                                        "%C4%81%F4%8F%B0%80",
-                                        "%F4%8F%B0%80%C4%81"
-    };
-
-    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
-
-        for (int i=0; i < testStrings.length; i++) {
-            test(testStrings[i], correctEncodings[i]);
-        }
+    public static String[][] arguments() {
+        return new String[][] {
+                {"\uD800\uDC00", "%F0%90%80%80"},
+                {"\uD800\uDFFF", "%F0%90%8F%BF"},
+                {"\uDBFF\uDC00", "%F4%8F%B0%80"},
+                {"\uDBFF\uDFFF", "%F4%8F%BF%BF"},
+                {"1\uDBFF\uDC00", "1%F4%8F%B0%80"},
+                {"@\uDBFF\uDC00", "%40%F4%8F%B0%80"},
+                {"\uDBFF\uDC001", "%F4%8F%B0%801"},
+                {"\uDBFF\uDC00@", "%F4%8F%B0%80%40"},
+                {"\u0101\uDBFF\uDC00", "%C4%81%F4%8F%B0%80"},
+                {"\uDBFF\uDC00\u0101", "%F4%8F%B0%80%C4%81"},
+                {"\uDE0A\uD83D", "%3F%3F"},
+                {"1\uDE0A\uD83D", "1%3F%3F"},
+                {"@\uDE0A\uD83D", "%40%3F%3F"},
+                {"1@1\uDE0A\uD800\uDC00 \uD83D", "1%401%3F%F0%90%80%80+%3F"}
+        };
     }
 
-    private static void test(String str, String correctEncoding)
-        throws Exception {
+    @ParameterizedTest
+    @MethodSource("arguments")
+    public void test(String str, String correctEncoding) {
+        String encoded = URLEncoder.encode(str, UTF_8);
+        assertEquals(correctEncoding, encoded, () ->
+                "str=%s, expected=%s, actual=%s"
+                        .formatted(escape(str), escape(correctEncoding), escape(encoded)));
 
-        System.out.println("Unicode bytes of test string are: "
-                           + getHexBytes(str));
-
-        String encoded = URLEncoder.encode(str, "UTF-8");
-
-        System.out.println("URLEncoding is: " + encoded);
-
-        if (encoded.equals(correctEncoding))
-            System.out.println("The encoding is correct!");
-        else {
-            throw new Exception("The encoding is incorrect!" +
-                                " It should be " + correctEncoding);
-        }
-
-        String decoded = URLDecoder.decode(encoded, "UTF-8");
-
-        System.out.println("Unicode bytes for URLDecoding are: "
-                           + getHexBytes(decoded));
-
-        if (str.equals(decoded))
-            System.out.println("The decoding is correct");
-        else {
-            throw new Exception("The decoded is not equal to the original");
-        }
-        System.out.println("---");
+        // Map unmappable characters to '?'
+        String cleanStr = new String(str.getBytes(UTF_8), UTF_8);
+        String decoded = URLDecoder.decode(encoded, UTF_8);
+        assertEquals(cleanStr, decoded, () ->
+                "expected=%s, actual=%s".formatted(escape(str), escape(decoded)));
     }
 
-    private static String getHexBytes(String s) throws Exception {
-        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
-        for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
-
-            int a = s.charAt(i);
-            int b1 = (a >>8) & 0xff;
-            int b2 = (byte)a;
-            int b11 = (b1>>4) & 0x0f;
-            int b12 = b1 & 0x0f;
-            int b21 = (b2 >>4) & 0x0f;
-            int b22 = b2 & 0x0f;
-
-            sb.append(Integer.toHexString(b11));
-            sb.append(Integer.toHexString(b12));
-            sb.append(Integer.toHexString(b21));
-            sb.append(Integer.toHexString(b22));
-            sb.append(' ');
-        }
-        return sb.toString();
+    private static String escape(String s) {
+        return s.chars().mapToObj(c -> String.format("\\u%04x", c))
+                .collect(Collectors.joining());
     }
-
 }