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26.1; browse-url, needs to % hex hex encode the hash char

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: larice <larice <at> vidisys.de>
Cc: 40241 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40241: Acknowledgement (26.1; browse-url, needs to % hex hex encode the hash char)
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 08:30:29 -0400

tags 40241 notabug
close 40241
quit

larice <larice <at> vidisys.de> writes:

> At the end, I've not used the blessed org command C-l C-o `org-insert-link'
>   to copy the %23 annotated link into the org file.
> I've incorrectly used C-y `yank' to simply paste it into the org file.
> C-l C-o would have caused a second round of %-hex encoding to transform
>   GRM21BR61A226ME51%23 --> GRM21BR61A226ME51%2523
> The second round will decode to %23 when `browse-url' is invoked
>   and firefox will open the page successfully.
>
> Sorry, please put this bug report deeply into the Trash Can.

Didn't quite follow all that, but sounds like there is no bug here, so
I'll close.

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