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.weyla...@gmail.com>" > > <michael.weyla...@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
