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<p dir="auto">I think this isn't quite the right approach, since as you say there are probably different characters that also need escaping (for example, a wikipedia link with a forward slash in the title, if that's possible).</p>
<p dir="auto">I think we should look for something that encodes url components, rather than making our own function. I found this interesting article:</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://bibwild.wordpress.com/2023/02/14/escaping-encoding-uri-components-in-ruby-3-2/" rel="nofollow">https://bibwild.wordpress.com/2023/02/14/escaping-encoding-uri-components-in-ruby-3-2/</a></p>
<p dir="auto">I think it's reasonable for us to use the <code class="notranslate">ERB:Utils</code> approach, since we are not yet on ruby 3.2+</p>

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