Keep Farsi characters readable in sitemap loc URLs.

Stop percent-encoding path slugs so <loc> shows UTF-8 Persian text while still sanitizing unsafe URL characters.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

src/sitemap/seo-slug.util.ts

@@ -16,7 +16,3 @@ export function slugifyForUrl(value: string, fallback = 'item'): string {
 
   return slug || fallback;
 }
-
-export function encodePathSegment(value: string): string {
-  return encodeURIComponent(value);
-}

src/sitemap/sitemap-xml.util.ts

@@ -51,13 +51,25 @@ export function buildSitemapXml(entries: SitemapUrlEntry[]): string {
   ].join('\n');
 }
 
+/**
+ * Build a path from a template. Keep Unicode (e.g. Farsi) readable in sitemap
+ * `<loc>` — do not percent-encode letters. XML escaping happens in buildSitemapXml.
+ * Only encode characters that break URL/path parsing.
+ */
 export function applyPathTemplate(
   template: string,
   vars: { id?: string; slug: string },
 ): string {
   return template
-    .replaceAll('{id}', vars.id != null ? encodeURIComponent(vars.id) : '')
-    .replaceAll('{slug}', encodeURIComponent(vars.slug));
+    .replaceAll('{id}', sanitizePathSegment(vars.id ?? ''))
+    .replaceAll('{slug}', sanitizePathSegment(vars.slug));
+}
+
+function sanitizePathSegment(value: string): string {
+  return value
+    .replace(/\\/g, '')
+    .replace(/[/?#]/g, '')
+    .replace(/\s+/g, '-');
 }
 
 export function buildAbsoluteUrl(baseUrl: string, path: string): string {