Whitespace in img src

[Waylan Limberg]

On 25 Feb 2008 16:45:23 -0800, david parsons <orc at pell.portland.or.us> wrote:

> In article <nemoMon022508103428 at news.lrz-muenchen.de>,

>

> Florian Lindner  <markdown-discuss at six.pairlist.net> wrote:

>  >Hello,

>  >markdown (Python implementation) seems to render:

>  >

>  >![alternativer text](pfad/und/eine lange/url zum bild.jpg)

>  >

>  >to

>  >

>  ><img src="pfad/und/eine" title="lange/url zum bild.jpg"

>  >alt="alternativer text"/>

>  >

>  >breaking the URL at the whitespace. AFAIK whitespaces are ok in URLs

>  >so why is it breaking up the URL here?

>

>     Because spaces are how it separates the url from the title text?

>


Yup, thats why. Although quotes are acceptable as well. The only way
to do the encoding of spaces is to always require quotes around the
title text. A quick look at the syntax rules indicates that quotes
should always be required and I could change python-markdown's
behavior to follow. However, there may be a significant number of
documents that have been created over the years that rely on the use
of a space only to separate the title. A change of that behavior would
break all those documents. On the other hand, url's with spaces would
be very unusual and are generally considered a bad idea, so I'm not
inclined to NOT make that change unless I get sufficiant demand for
it. Perhaps the other python-markdown dev would feel different.

Personally, I'd suggest a change in your urls. Perhaps replace the
spaces with the underscore `_`. If that's not possible or beyond your
control, then encode the urls manually. If you really must have the
spaces, then it would be *vary easy* (relatively speaking) to write
your own extension using python-markdown's extension api.



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