ZDF uses semicolon in video description; bug with python2

[mosterta]

ZDF uses semicolon in video description. The description is added with other parameters into an URL. When parsing and spliting the URL in python2 the semicolon is used as a separator which leads to a wrong data in the resulting dictionary and video cannot be found by video player.

Semicolon is replaced by "." instead and everything works again in python2

[rols1]

very useful, thank you.
I've found now that videos from ZDF-funk very often contain punctuations in description, which cannot pass the router function (even in matrix and nexus). So I take your patch temporarily until the corresponding replace functions in modul util are completed with code for valid chars.

[rols1]

I had not noticed the problem, because I test changes mainly with Kodi Matrix. So thanks again for the hint about the dict problem.
I had pushed your patch this morning as a single update, but in the meantime integrated it into an extension of the valid_title_chars function (util). It is called in ZDF_get_content, so is not limited to ZDF_PageMenu, where your patch was.
In valid_title_chars, the semicolon is then eliminated along with other router incompatible characters. This makes the calls to repl_json_chars dispensable.
But I remove these sporadically and when I have a better day (2 ugly typos this morning).

[mosterta]

basically I did just a quick & dirty hack to get ZDF mediathek running again on my production system. I pushed the hack to make you aware of the difference in behavior between python2 and python3 code. Therefore I am completely fine if you rework and/or integrate the change in different way into the production code.
Thanks for making all the efforts to adapt for changes in the ZDF json format/mediathek.