[Portland-bugs] [Bug 36009] New: xdg-open fails to open urls/files with embedded %20's

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36009

           Summary: xdg-open fails to open urls/files with embedded %20's
           Product: Portland
           Version: 1.0
          Platform: x86 (IA32)
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: xdg-utils
        AssignedTo: portland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: dave at dawoodfall.net


Try to open a file in qbittorrent and the filename will have %20 instead of
spaces, which fails in xdg-open with a 'file doesn't exist' error.

A simple workaround is to do something like this:

url=`echo "$url" | sed 's/%20/\\ /g'`

But this will probably mess up internet urls.

I don't know how widespread the problem is or whether it's only a problem with
qbittorrent, but I thought it was worth reporting it.

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