Re: MS Word to Abiword hyperlink conversion issues

From: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere_at_teaser.fr>
Date: Wed Nov 26 2008 - 18:35:54 CET

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 12:29 -0500, sum1abi@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > Case 1: URL
> > MS Word:
> > http://PRTCHQ828
> >
> > When I convert to HTML using, this hyperlink shows as:
> >
> > <a href="http%3a//PRTCHQ828"><span
> style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Verdana'" xml:lang="en-US"
> lang="en-US">http://PRTCHQ828</span></a>
> >
> > What I notice is the %3a which stands for :
>
> This escaping is actually done on purpose to comply with RFC 1738. See
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt and
> http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2005/Apr/0296.html.

That's wrong. RFC 1738 specify a certain number of reserved characters
that should be escaped. In that case ":" is one.

That's a different bug from
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11813 albeit being
related.

Hub

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