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Hello,
I'm working on a Wikipedia search widget which works fine when using single keywords. But if using several keywords e.g. "Charlie Chaplin" with spaces between the words I'm getting an error message from Wikipedia (Charlie%20Chaplin).
It would be great if someone could help to fix that up!

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You'll need to end up with + characters in the url where spaces should be. Someone may know of an easier way to do this, but I got it to work by using this:

var url = "http://www.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=" + encodeURIComponent(edit1.text).replace( /%20/g , "+" ) + "&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8";

A regular .replace( "%20" , "+" ) only wanted to fix the first space, so a global regex replacement works better.
You may have to replace other punctuation too. Look up how Wikipedia reads its URLs and see how other people are encoding it in Javascript and you'll probably find an easy way to do it.

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Thank you very much for your help & hints - now it works perfectly !!!