Bug: unexpected behavior with special characters in input

[ConfusedMarc]

When using special characters in the input field, the output is incorrect.

Expected: proper escaping and handling
Actual: characters are stripped or cause errors

This might be related to the encoding changes in the last release.

[ConfusedMarc]

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