response.sendRedirect url parameter does not work with Umlaut (german)

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Hi,
we are on the version 12.10.3 and have a problem with the $repsonse.sendRedirect Function.

When we use a umlaut in a parameter it converts to a weird character.

For example:
$response.sendRedirect('/Main/playground?text=*hörsaal*')

creates an Url like this
https://example/Main/playground?text=*h%EF%BF%BDrsaal*&f_type=DOCUMENT&f_locale=en&f_locale=&r=1
When I echo the request.test this is the result: (*h�rsaal*)

When an Umlaut is used in the pagename the Umlaut is used correctly.

Is there a way to fix this for me?

Greetings
Dominic

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I found a fix. I probably missed to write that $xwiki.url() is also in the equation here.

The problem was:
$xwiki.getURL('Main.Persönliche', 'view', "text=hörsaal") created something like this.
/Main/Pers%C3%B6nliche?text=hörsaal

It converted the first argument but not a ladder one.

so i added a ${escapetool.url('hörsaal')}.

I don’t know why getURL only converts parts of url, but for me this workaround fixes the problem.

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Cool, thanks for posting back.

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"text=hörsaal" is URL syntax already so it would not make any sense to escape it. If it did the = too would be escaped.

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that makes sense. thx for clearing that up.