It also appears that %3A gets turned into : On Fri, Mar 31, 2017, at 05:39 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have problems opening a link in org. > > The link looks like this: > > https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#search/q=author%3A%22Dominik%2CC%22/metrics > > I have copied it like this from the address bar in a browser. > > If I click on it in Org-mode, the link is modified to > > https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/%23search/q=author:%22Dominik,C%22/metrics > > before being sent to the browser, and the browser cannot resolve it. > The problem seems to be that # has been turned into %23 > > Where does this happen, and how can I fix this? > > Thank you. > > Carsten -- Peter Davis   www.techcurmudgeon.com