Re: [O] [RFC] Fixing link encoding once and for all

[Jens Lechtenboerger]

On 2019-02-27, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Jens Lechtenboerger <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> When exporting the following link to LaTeX, the decoding fails.
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%E2%80%93black_tree][Red-black trees]]
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> According to my suggestion in this thread, this link should be written
>
>   [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%25E2%2580%2593black_tree][Red-black 
> trees]]
>
> i.e., either you wrote it by hand, or `org-insert-link' failed.

I copied that from the address bar of my browser, probably two years
ago.  Today, I was surprised by a compilation failure.

> With the \-escape solution suggested by Neil, it would be correctly
> processed without additional change. Of course, that would entail other
> difficulties.

You mentioned Windows file names.  I’m not affected by that.  URLs
in my Org files neither contain “[” nor “\” (but lots of “%”).  So
the suggestion by Neil would be fine for me.

Best wishes
Jens