GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 219555
Hyperlinks with % escaped characters not interpreted properly
Last modified: 2014-12-02 01:08:25 UTC
Package: Evolution Priority: Minor Version: 1.0.1 Synopsis: Hyperlinks with % characters not interpreted properly Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Shell Description: An e-mail list I receive contains hyperlinks in which extended characters are replaced by the equivalent character code. For instance, a period . is replaced by %2E, and a space is replaced by %20. When I click such a hyperlink, Evolution does not convert the character code back into the corresponding character, and my Web browser can't find the correct URL. Evolution should automatically convert the % codes into the appropriate characters.
evo stops reading the url by "%". therefore only the beginning of the url is recognized as an url. one has to copy and paste... :-(
changing the subject a bit to clarify...
...uhm, and reassigning
unless I'm mistaken, gtkhtml-3.12.2 solves that : the regex for http contains a % now, even if the following 2 chars aren't assured to by in the hexadecimal range.
Testcase welcome. And I don't see yet how this is a valid report if it refers to an URL itself and not to a referer one.
Since version 3.6, Evolution uses WebKit instead of GtkHtml for displaying messages. (And for completeness, Evolution 3.14 is planned to use WebKit also for composing and editing messages so GtkHtml will not receive any fixes anymore.) Hence I am closing this GtkHtml rendering bug report. We are sorry that your request was not handled in time when it was reported but unfortunately manpower is very limited (and does not allow testing every single reported issue separately again either). Please feel free to reopen this report (and move it to the "Evolution" product and the "Mail" component) if the problem described in this bug report still happens in a recent supported Evolution version which uses WebKit (the current stable Evolution version is 3.12).