On 30 August 2012 08:14, ping <[email protected]> wrote: > this doesn't works: > link:http://www-in.abc.com/~pings/webdata/pings-vedio.flv[video]
~ is illegal character in URLs > > this works: > link:http://www-in.abc.com/\~pings/webdata/pings-vedio.flv[video] > a "friendly" browser must accept \ as an escape although it isn't standard > this doesn't work: > link:http://www-in.abc.com/\~pings/webdata/ping's toi_2_0.flv[video] space ends a macro, the Asciidoc User Guide 21.1.1 says: "If the <target> necessitates space characters use %20, for example large%20image.png." > > even this doesn't work > link:http://www-in.abc.com/\~pings/webdata/ping's%20toi_2_0.flv[video] pass, might be the ' although it is legal in a URL it often has special meaning > > and URL displays as (firefox copy link location): > http://www-in.abc.com/%5C~pings/webdata/ping%E2%80%99s%20toi_2_0.flv Ask firefox. > > what happens here? Basic advice for URLs (this is not asciidoc specific) is don't use any punctuation characters without escaping them to hex. That includes the ~ Cheers Lex > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "asciidoc" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
