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Subject: Re: Incorrect hexification in URLs in LaTeX Export
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 09:22:55 +0200
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Followup: There has been a discussion about hex-escaping last year
with some back-and-forth on the topic of link escaping:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/74983/focus=75002

It's quite a muddy area.

Best,
  -- David

At Sun, 25 May 2014 09:09:50 +0200,
David Maus wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> At Sun, 25 May 2014 07:56:15 +0200,
> Bastien wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Michael,
> > 
> > "R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt@gmail.com>"
> > <michael.weylandt@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > > TLDR: remove ?\= from org-link-escape-chars.
> > 
> > Done (in master.)
> > 
> > I'm copying David since he's the author of this commit:
> > http://orgmode.org/w/?p=org-mode.git;a=commitdiff;h=1a68b6
> > 
> > David, sorry to jump in, but are there any reason why the
> > characters + ; and = where escaped in this commit?
> > 
> 
> I think the only reason was that these characters already had been
> escaped in `org-link-escape-chars'.
> 
> The commit removed the special rules for the letters with
> diacritics. The previous commit (0c4bb0e) introduced an algorithm that
> covered non-ASCII characters in general, thus special rules for
> letters with diacritics where no longer necessary.
> 
> I can only speculate why they were escaped in the first place: + ; and
> = do have special meaning in HTTP URIs and IIRC Org did not draw a
> strict distinction between escaping for internal purposes and escaping
> of HTTP URIs.
> 
> Best,
>   -- David
> 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > -- 
> >  Bastien