bug#55429: 27.1; browse-url-of-dired-file fails to open file with '#' character

bug#55429: 27.1; browse-url-of-dired-file fails to open file with '#' character

[Ivo Tadeu]

When you use W in a dired buffer to open a file with the '#' character,
the file doesn't get opened. In my limited testing, the problem appears 
to be in the function `browse-url-file-url':

(browse-url-file-url "/home/ivo/tmp/file with spaces.txt")
  => "file:///home/ivo/tmp/file%20with%20spaces.txt"

(browse-url-file-url "/home/ivo/tmp/file with #.txt")
  => "file:///home/ivo/tmp/file%20with%20#.txt"

When I use xdg-open directly with these urls, the second one will
fail. It appears that the '#' should also be percent-encoded.

Tested with emacs -Q


In GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.24, 
cairo version 1.16.0)
  of 2021-03-27, modified by Debian built on x86-conova-01
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12011000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

bug#55429: 27.1; browse-url-of-dired-file fails to open file with '#' character

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Ivo Tadeu <ivotade@gmail.com> writes:

> (browse-url-file-url "/home/ivo/tmp/file with #.txt")
>  => "file:///home/ivo/tmp/file%20with%20#.txt"

This has been fixed in Emacs 29:

(browse-url-file-url "/home/ivo/tmp/file with #.txt")
=> "file:///home/ivo/tmp/file%20with%20%23.txt"

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