On a lower level, the function sanitize_title_with_dashes() converts to lowercase, replaces spaces and non-alphanumeric characters with dashes, and urlencodes whatever you pass to it.
<?php
echo sanitize_title_with_dashes( 'This is my blog post' );
// this-is-my-blog-post
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