Cy.Url Doesnt support UTF-8 charset

[arifozkan]

Current behavior

I want to test Url to check the page right or not. But whenever url contains unique chars such as (ä, ö," " ) it errors. Is there any solution?

The first one is cy.url().The second one is original url. Url changes inside cypress test.

My solution is

if(arrLost[2].raceLocation.includes("ä")){
  trackName.replaceAll("ä", "%C3%A4")
}
else if(arrLost[2].raceLocation.includes(" ")){
  trackName.replaceAll(" ", "%20")
}
else if(arrLost[2].raceLocation.includes(" ")){
  trackName.replaceAll("´", "%C2%B4")
}
cy.url().should("contain",trackName).wait(2000)

But this is waste of time. Thanks...

Desired behavior

No response

Test code to reproduce

if (arrLost[2].raceLocation.includes("ä")) {
  trackName.replaceAll("ä", "%C3%A4")
}
else if (arrLost[2].raceLocation.includes(" ")) {
  trackName.replaceAll(" ", "%20")
}
else if (arrLost[2].raceLocation.includes(" ")) {
  trackName.replaceAll("´", "%C2%B4")
}
cy.url().should("contain", trackName).wait(2000)

Cypress Version

6.9.0

Other

No response

[sainthkh]

Sorry for the late reply.

How about using decodeURI function like below?

it('t', () => {
  cy.visit('https://mozilla.org/?x=шеллы')

  cy.url().then((url) => {
    expect(decodeURI(url)).to.contain('шеллы')
  })
})

[sainthkh]

@jennifer-shehane

I believe there are 2 solutions for this issue:

• Add a note about decodeURI to cy.url documentation.
• Add decode option to the cy.url option.

What do you think is better?

[cypress-bot]

The code for this is done in cypress-io/cypress#17930, but has yet to be released.
We'll update this issue and reference the changelog when it's released.

[cypress-bot]

Released in 8.4.0.

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