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[lyx.git] / src / insets / InsetHyperlink.cpp

diff --git a/src/insets/InsetHyperlink.cpp b/src/insets/InsetHyperlink.cpp
index afa49d4e35b36d8573385cb1fddfbcf7dfceb853..a500f7bd5913b35d7ea54c226e56826af4eeab9e 100644 (file)
--- a/src/insets/InsetHyperlink.cpp
+++ b/src/insets/InsetHyperlink.cpp
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ docstring InsetHyperlink::screenLabel() const
        return temp + url;
 }
 
+
 void InsetHyperlink::doDispatch(Cursor & cur, FuncRequest & cmd)
 {
        switch (cmd.action()) {
@@ -125,15 +126,17 @@ void InsetHyperlink::latex(otexstream & os,
 
        // For the case there is no name given, the target is set as name.
        // Do this before !url.empty() and !name.empty() to handle characters
-       // like the "%" correctly.
+       // such as % correctly.
        if (name.empty())
                name = url;
 
        if (!url.empty()) {
-               // Replace the "\" character by its ASCII code according to the
-               // URL specifications because "\" is not allowed in URLs and by
-               // \href. Only do this when the following character is not also
-               // a "\", because "\\" is valid code
+               // Use URI/URL-style percent-encoded string (hexadecimal).
+               // We exclude some characters that must not be transformed
+               // in hrefs: % # / : ? = & ! * ' ( ) ; @ + $ , [ ]
+               // or that we need to treat manually: \.
+               url = to_percent_encoding(url, from_ascii("%#\\/:?=&!*'();@+$,[]"));
+               // We handle \ manually since \\ is valid
                for (size_t i = 0, pos;
                        (pos = url.find('\\', i)) != string::npos;
                        i = pos + 2) {
@@ -145,6 +148,7 @@ void InsetHyperlink::latex(otexstream & os,
                // field because otherwise LaTeX will fail when the hyperlink is
                // within an argument of another command, e.g. in a \footnote. It
                // is important that they are escaped as "\#" and not as "\#{}".
+               // FIXME this is not necessary in outside of commands.
                for (int k = 0; k < 2; k++)
                        for (size_t i = 0, pos;
                                (pos = url.find(chars_url[k], i)) != string::npos;