Saving folder names with special characters leads to incorrect encoding

[weiyiwang-dotcms]

Parent Issue

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Problem Statement

When saving a folder with a name that contains letters with accents, the name will add some additional unexpected characters.

Steps to Reproduce

Create a docker container for v23.10.24 of dotCMS Create a folder with name containing an accented character. Example: Ârvore Save the folder After the initial save, there will be an additional hyphen after the accented character, and the accent above the A will change to à Subsequent saves will append more unexpected characters

Acceptance Criteria

Have the accented character in folder names encode correctly

dotCMS Version

23.10.24 Also reproducible in QA master

Proposed Objective

Technical User Experience

Proposed Priority

Priority 2 - Important

External Links... Slack Conversations, Support Tickets, Figma Designs, etc.

https://dotcms.slack.com/archives/C01N0AU1NUC/p1721766791361909 https://dotcms.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/117346

Assumptions & Initiation Needs

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Quality Assurance Notes & Workarounds

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Sub-Tasks & Estimates

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[weiyiwang-dotcms]

May be related to this: https://github.com/dotCMS/core/issues/29093

[weiyiwang-dotcms]

In addition to the poor user experience of the incorrect encoding appearing on the front-end page for users, this also appears to be affecting SEO ranking, given that the encoded URLs keep changing.

[erickgonzalez]

Working as it should, special chars can be used in folder title/name.

[bryanboza]

Unable to reproduce.

Tested on trunk // Docker // FF