utf8 participant names

[sjanssen2]

If you log in as kit fdn_wsjdr, hover over "human samples" and the single participant and then try to click on the name, the sample overview is not shown. I figure it is because of UTF-8 issues in the generated HTML page.
Is it possible to do an escaping within the templates, here sitebase.html?
ag_data.get_menu_items(skid) retrieves unescaped strings directly from the database :-/

[wasade]

I'm starting to wonder whether we should just go to python3...? Might alleviate a lot of this pain.

[sjanssen2]

Upgrading to Python3 would be so great - but as with the new DB version, I bet it will uncover a lot of additional bugs :-/

[josenavas]

In this case, the problems are not the utf8 characters, but the \ and ' special characters that are breaking the JavaScript. When filling the tornado templates, these characters are not properly escaped, which break the JavaScript and hence some of the functionality. We have not found a good way of fixing this globally (including on Qiita) and we have been solving it in a case by case basis (ugh).

However, I do agree that moving to py3 would be great - do you want to organize another sprint after the current one is done to do the upgrade?