"Simon W. Jones" <psilas...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello, > > A few days ago I raised a problem with HTML export I was having and > was advised to upgrade to Orgmode 8.1. I have now done so but the > problem persists. The problem significantly effects my workflow and I > would be very grateful for a solution. > > If I add a link in my document to an external website that has spaces > in the URL, for example www.example.com/useful%20document.pdf, then > export as HTML, the URL appears in the HTML output as > www.example.com/useful%2520document.pdf. The link obviously then > returns an error when one clicks on it. > > Is there any way round this issue, can anyone else replicate the problem? >
How do you add the link to your org document? If you cut-and-paste into the document, there should be no double encoding. If OTOH you use C-C C-l, that *always* url-encodes, so you end up encoding the % sign and %20 becomes %2520 since there is no way for org to know whether something is urlencoded already. There was a discussion about this not too long ago that came to this conclusion IIRC[fn:1]. You can get around the problem by constructing such links manually - paste the url-encoded URL as it comes from your browser directly into your org file buffer: http://hl.udogs.net/files/Gaming/%20Myth%20Series/Myth%20II%20-%20Soulblighter/ and then put the link decorations around it by hand - after all, org is just plain text: [[http://hl.udogs.net/files/Gaming/%20Myth%20Series/Myth%20II%20-%20Soulblighter/][my link]] Exporting that to HTML works fine I believe. Footnotes: [fn:1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/74983 but I haven't gone back to reread it all. -- Nick
