[url-utils] makeAbsoluteUrl mangles quotes about sdk HOT 2 CLOSED

The problem is stemming from the use of cheerio, there is a related issue here but it doesn't look like it will be fixed 😞 cheeriojs/cheerio#720

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One fairly straight forward option could be to switch from decodeEntities: false to decodeEntities: true, this would result in the following:

<div data-options='{"strings": ["one", "two"]}'></div>

Becomes:

<div data-options="{&quot;strings&quot;: [&quot;one&quot;, &quot;two&quot;]}"></div>

This is valid HTML and will still be parsable by JS because the html-entities are automatically decoded by the browser.

However, this is quite a large change in behaviour, we'd need to review all places where we use the makeAbsoluteUrls function to ensure we don't suffer from any double-encoding problems. We'd likely want to make sure it's the very last thing called before generating output at the API level.

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