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Describe the bug

When using Simple-Jekyll-Search, the browser console shows the following error:

SyntaxError: Bad escaped character in JSON at position 1473

As a result, the search feature does not work.

According to my speculation, this issue was introduced in commit 0eb7efa, which removed the jsonify filter from the Liquid template generating search.json:

"content": {{ _content | jsonify }}

Steps To Reproduce

1. Include a blog post where the content field contains a Windows file path, e.g.,:

   ... set environment path to C:\Program Files\...

2. Load the page, execute in console:

   fetch('/assets/js/data/search.json').then(r => r.json()).then(console.log).catch(console.error);

Expected Behavior

• The search.json file should load successfully without throwing a SyntaxError.
• All content, including Windows file paths (e.g., C:\Program Files...), should be correctly escaped and parsable as valid JSON.
• Simple-Jekyll-Search should initialize properly and return relevant search results based on user input.

Environment

jekyll-theme-chirpy v7.3.0

Anything else?

search.json