On 2019-03-01, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Jens Lechtenboerger <lech...@wi.uni-muenster.de> writes: > >> On 2019-03-01, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: >> >>> 3. There will be some backward compatibility issues. We can add >>> a checker in Org Lint to catch most of those. For example, we could >>> look at URI where every percent is followed only by 25, 5B, and 5D. >> >> I do not understand this point. What is special about URIs where >> *only* those occur? Might compatibility issues not arise if those >> occur at all (while others such as %28 and %29 for parentheses might >> occur without problems as well)? > > If a URI seems percent encoded, but only uses %25, %5B and %5D as escape > combinations, there is a high chance that it is Org-encoded, and > therefore uses a deprecated syntax. We could send a warning to the user > in this case; they might want to clean the URI. > > OTOH, if there is %28, or %29, we are sure it isn't Org-encoded, and > therefore, the percent-encoding was intended right from the start (like > in your Wikipedia link).
Thanks for the clarification. Makes sense. Best wishes Jens
