Re: [Orgmode] Re: possible URI handling bug: verification and reporting?

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jul 31, 2009, at 3:27 AM, Bastien wrote:

> Bernt Hansen <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I think the parenthesis should be URL encoded to be a valid URL.
> >
> > Change ( to %28 and ) to %29 and you get
> >
> > http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1352-2310%2801%2900429-0
> >
> > which works for me (at least it doesn't 404 anymore)
> >
> > Gnus also stops the fontification at the ( so I don't think this is
> > org-mode specific.
>
> Org-mode explicitely excluded parentheses from `org-plain-link-re' so
> yes, it was org-mode specific.  And (browse-url-url-at-point) was not
> confused either by parentheses, so org-mode needed to be fixed (and
> perhaps Gnus needs too!)

The reason why Org (and probably GNUS) exclude parenthesis from
plain links it to make them good citizens in plain text.  Identifying
a plain link is a heuristic matter, and it seemed to me that
more often is a link the last thing in a pair of parenthesis than are
parenthesis part of a link.  To cover links with special characters,
Org has the <link> and [[link]] formats.

So I have reverted this change and will keep it this way unless
convinced/overruled by more discussion about the issue.

- Carsten