Fix link encoding bug:
Geert Kloosterman writes:
> When an org link is created from an URL containing a hex escape
> `org-make-link-string' creates a link that ends up corrupted the moment
> it is followed (e.g. using `org-open-at-point').
>
> I've traced this back to `org-link-escape' and `org-link-unescape'. The
> following shows how the hex code "%2B" is converted to a "+" after an
> escaping round trip:
>
> (org-link-unescape (org-link-escape
> "http://some.host.com/form?&id=blah%2Bblah"))
> ==>
> "http://some.host.com/form?&id=blah+blah"
>
> In my case this small change ended up in a broken URL.
>
> Additionally, when the URL-escape happens to be in lower case (or
> otherwise not present in `org-link-escape-chars') we end up with an
> error:
>
> (org-link-unescape (org-link-escape
> "http://some.host.com/form?&id=blah%2bblah"))
> ==>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument characterp nil)
> char-to-string(nil)
> ...
>
> When `org-url-encoding-use-url-hexify' is set to `t' we do get a proper
> round trip of the URL containing hex-escapes:
>
> (setq org-url-encoding-use-url-hexify t)
> (org-link-unescape (org-link-escape
> "http://some.host.com/form?&id=blah%2bblah"))
> ==>
> "http://some.host.com/form?&id=blah%2bblah"
>
>
> Setting `org-url-encoding-use-url-hexify' does not fix the complete
> problem however: `org-open-at-point' still did not end up with the
> proper URL. Within `org-open-at-point' there is another call to
> `org-link-escape':
>
> (org-link-escape path org-link-escape-chars-browser)
>
> This time a mapping table is passed in explicitly (the second argument).
> However, when `org-url-encoding-use-url-hexify' is set,a this mapping
> table isn't used, resulting (again) in a broken URL.
>
> I have attached a patch that fixes the problem: do not use url-hexify in
> `org-link-escape' and `org-link-unescape' when an explicit mapping table
> has been specified.
>
> In summary:
> - the default behaviour of `org-link-escape', with
> `org-url-encoding-use-url-hexify' set to nil, has some issues with
> handling URLS which contain url-encoded hex escapes
> - when a mapping table is passed to `org-link-escape' and
> `org-link-unescape', they should probably not use url-hexify.
> Patch attached.