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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Problems with opening a link
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2017 14:16:16 +0200
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To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>
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Hello,

Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> writes:

> but I think the entire url quoting scheme in Org might deserve another
> look.

It does. I also suggested to think about it some time ago.

Ideally, Org should never quote any URI whatsoever. This is really the
root of all evil, because you never know if characters are escaped, and,
as a consequence, you never really know how many un-escaping turns are
required.

Unfortunately, there are a couple of forbidden characters in link
syntax, namely "[", "]", and multiple consecutive spaces. So, if we want
to allow those in, e.g. file names or labels ("http" URL are not
a problem since you can hex-encode them), we need some kind of escaping
mechanism.

In any case, it should be different than hex-encoding so we can tell if
there is some Org specific escaping involved.

Just some data to keep the ball rolling.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou