Manually breaking URL in bibliography adds ASCII characters

Question

I'm trying to break a URL in the bibliography. I used \\, thinking that it would solve the problem but while it broke the URL it also added the ASCII code for \.

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=apa, natbib]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{bibtoolong.bib}
\begin{document}
\cite{problematicentry}
\cite{problematicentry2}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

This is the bib file:

@online{problematicentry,
  title                     =   {{aaaaaaaaa}},
  organization              =   {bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb},
  url                       =   {https://cccccc.com/ddddddddd/eeee/ffff/gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg/hhh/iiiiiiii/jjjjjjjjjj},
  date                      =   {2023-07-22}
}
@online{problematicentry2,
  title                     =   {{aaaaaaaaa}},
  organization              =   {bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb},
  url                       =   {https://cccccc.com/ddddddddd/eeee/ffff/\gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg/hhh/iiiiiiii/jjjjjjjjjj},
  date                      =   {2023-07-22}
}

The result looks like this:

Is there a way to prevent the characters from appearing while manually breaking the URL?

see https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/442317/2388 for various strategies with long urls and bibliographies. — Ulrike Fischer, Jul 23 '23 at 12:27

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 23 '23 at 18:06

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{fullpage}


\usepackage[backend=biber, style=apa, natbib]{biblatex}
\usepackage{xurl}
\addbibresource{bibtoolong.bib}

\begin{document}

\cite{problematicentry}

\cite{problematicentry2}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

It solved my problem but xurl must be added after biblatex

Manually breaking URL in bibliography adds ASCII characters

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