why is %20 turned into a space when using Router.navigate?

[davis]

This issue has been here for a while, I couldn't find anything issues, so I went ahead and made a test repo. Was hoping you could provide some insight as to why %20s are being turned into spaces.

https://github.com/davis/backbone-router-test

Thanks!

[davis]

Test case

var Backbone = require('backbone');

var router = new Backbone.Router();
Backbone.history.start();

router.navigate('space%20space');

Expected result

Url looks something like http://localhost:3000/space%20space

Actual result

Url looks like http://localhost:3000/space space

Why this is a problem

This breaks URLs when copy pasting them, etc, and in general is inconsistent behavior, because none of the other URLencoded chars get decoded.

How to see it for yourself

git clone [email protected]:davis/backbone-router-test.git
cd backbone-router-test
open index.html

[lfilho]

Not sure but are you using jQuery 3 under the hood? It might be it: https://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/3.0/#breaking-change-jquery-param-no-longer-converts-20-to-a-plus-sign

[Flamefork]

Looks like #4025

[francescq]

Any plan on releasing a version containing #4025 fix?

1.3.4 maybe?

Thanks!

[jgonggrijp]

Seems to have been fixed in #4026.