🐛 [Bug] Wrong German Umlaut Handling in Editor

Created by: Tirokk

Authored by datenbrei Nov 14, 2019 Closed Apr 16, 2020

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🐛 Bugreport

The Editor component does not encode German umlauts in URLs correctly:

Browsers decode encoded umlauts in the URL bar. This one:

https://www.dw.com/de/bundeswehr-benennt-kaserne-nach-ns-widerständler/a-51101207

gets

"https://www.dw.com/de/bundeswehr-benennt-kaserne-nach-ns-widerst%C3%A4ndler/a-51101207">

Umlauts are not allowed in URLs, but users don't know about this. So if they make use of these, the editor should correct this and encode the umlauts and other special characters.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Insert a link with a German Umlaut into the Editor
2. See the URL to be split or broken

Expected behavior

The editor component should encode umlauts in URLs correctly

Version & Environment

Type: [Desktop]

• OS: [MacOS]
• Browser: [Firefox]
• Version [70]
• Device: [PC]

Additional context

This means, that even if a user inserts bad URLs with Umlauts the editor should fix this. Browsers encode umlauts in the URL bar, so should our editor handle this.