diff --git a/src/app.py b/src/app.py
index 72fae320cdccfa323a7aa4d76c1a0b342479f2a8..39a1976b958c5a9b024ec3bfb0233b709ec307ab 100755
--- a/src/app.py
+++ b/src/app.py
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@ from flask_cors import CORS
 from urllib.parse import unquote
 import requests
 
-# import sys
-# import codecs
-# sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stdout.buffer, 'strict')
-
 import config
 from wiktextract_wrapper import Wiktextract
 
@@ -64,7 +60,7 @@ def search(lang, word):
         if wiktextractor.wxr.thesaurus_db_conn:
             wiktextractor.wxr.thesaurus_db_conn.close()
 
-@app.route("/search/<wiktlang>/<wordlang>/<path:word>/<format>", methods=["GET"])
+@app.route("/search/<wiktlang>/<wordlang>/<word>/<format>", methods=["GET"])
 def search_and_format(wiktlang, wordlang, word, format):
     word = requests.utils.unquote(word)
     word = word.encode('latin-1').decode('utf-8')  # Decode the word from Latin-1 to UTF-8