ESP8266

Hi guys
I'm currently working on a project that involves sending and receiving text via wifi. I'm using esp8266 01 for this. I've done my basic settings, everything seems cool with AT commands. I even used it as a webserver. But the problem lies in getting http get response. Whenever I receive anything with space and some characters, mt response will have + sign and some %c ....characters. I know they are the ascii equivalent of the sent characters. PLease guys, how may I remove those unwanted characters? I tried to use esp8266Wifi library, but installing it has never been successful, getting all sort of errors (like functional.h, queue.h, etc). Please guy assist me. Thanks