Nicolas Goaziou twisted the bytes to say:
Nicolas> Hello, Nicolas> dmg <d...@turingmachine.org> writes: >> org-link-escape only replaces space, [, ], and % >> >> but search in google/gmail is replacing + also. >> >> The simplest solution is to add 43 to org-link-escape-chars: >> >> org-link-escape-chars is a variable defined in ‘org.el’. >> Its value is (32 91 93 37) >> >> This variable may be risky if used as a file-local variable. Nicolas> `org-link-escape' is for internal links, not for general URL-encoding. Nicolas> You may want to use `url-encode-url' instead. this indeed addresses the issue I was having. thank you very much for your response. --daniel -- Daniel M. German "It is useless to punish a man unless he knows why he is punished... Punishment must be unusual R. Heinlein -> or it serves no purpose." http://turingmachine.org/ http://silvernegative.com/ dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .