webtc1 400 error

[funderburkjim]

A user (James H.) reported a problem with list display. While researching his problem, I noticed a probably related problem with the Cologne webtc1 display. Here is how the problem presents itself:

[funderburkjim]

This problem is quirky, because

• the problem does not show itself in local installation
• the problem does occur for some os-browser configurations
  • Edge on windows11 does show the problem
  • Chrome on windows11 does not show the problem
  • Safari on macosx Ventura (m2 mac-mini) does not show the problem.
  • And some other data points
  • The user's original problem was on an Ipad-pro with ecosia browser.

[funderburkjim]

The above commit makes the problem go away for MD dictionary.

[funderburkjim]

The problem applies to all dictionaries.

So I reran redo_cologne_all.sh at Cologne for csl-websanlexicon/v02.

[funderburkjim]

The change idea

escape function in Javascript is deprecated when constructing urls with non-ascii characters (in our case, the utf-8 encoded Devanagari headword गुरु. Instead use encodeURI.

Solution suggested by Bing Chat (GPT)

The escape() function is deprecated and should not be used. Instead, you should use encodeURI() when you want to encode a URL. It encodes symbols that are not allowed in a URL. You should use encodeURIComponent() when you want to encode parameters of your URL. You can also use it to encode a whole URL12

Using both functions for security is not necessary since encodeURIComponent() already encodes all characters that have special meaning in URIs1

[funderburkjim]

I think this change (to encodeURI) was made. Closing issue.