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Bug 752845 - Non-alphanumeric characters in Markdown links don't work properly
Non-alphanumeric characters in Markdown links don't work properly
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: doxygen
Classification: Other
Component: build
1.8.10
Other Windows
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Dimitri van Heesch
Dimitri van Heesch
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-07-24 22:51 UTC by Eric Dand
Modified: 2015-12-30 10:20 UTC
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Description Eric Dand 2015-07-24 22:51:20 UTC 
This is a more general version of ticket #731509.

Markdown-style links generally ignore (or misinterpret) any extra markdown formatting. For example, each of the following should create an italicized link:

```
*[text](link)*
[*text*](link)
[text *text*](link)
[_text_](link)
```

Instead, the output from all of these preserves the * characters, and is not italic. The linking behaviour does work.

Additionally, non-special non-alphanumeric characters also seem to mess up the Markdown link formatting. Consider the following:

["AAAAA" BBBB](link)

One would expect this to create a link whose text is: "AAAAA" BBBB

Instead, quite curiously, it creates a link whose text is: linkAAAAA" BBBB"

...where "link" is the title of the linked page, and is a hyperlink. The following text (AAAAA" BBBB") is not a part of the hyperlink.
Comment 1 Dimitri van Heesch 2015-12-28 15:17:47 UTC 
Confirmed. Should be fixed in the next GIT update.
Comment 2 Dimitri van Heesch 2015-12-30 10:20:02 UTC 
This bug was previously marked ASSIGNED, which means it should be fixed in
doxygen version 1.8.11. Please verify if this is indeed the case. Reopen the
bug if you think it is not fixed and please include any additional information 
that you think can be relevant (preferably in the form of a self-contained example).