Unespected space at beginning of link text

[neffets]

I was irritated by text from an editor. Why it does not generate correct links?

The raw text was:

E-Mail: " name":mailto:test@test.de

it generates as html output

<a href="mailto:test@test.de">E-Mail: “ name</a>

Until I found: the link-text begins with a space.
I expected as output:

E-Mail: <a href="mailto:test@test.de"> name</a>

or

E-Mail: <a href="mailto:test@test.de">name</a>

Why we cannot accept spaces at beginning of link-text? (came from paste and copy) And it made a typographic quote from it.

[neffets]

combined bug. if a second line have a broken link (caused by space-linktext),
then a former correct link will be broken too

e.g.

* "Bauordnung für Berlin":http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/service/gesetzestexte/de/bauen.shtml
* " Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz":http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/vwvfg/BJNR012530976.html

will get you two broken / not-evaluated links. line one alone will get you an correct evaluated link.

[eliph]

Broken syntax will generate broken code, in any language.

[netcarver]

@neffets I've just pushed a new branch with a partial fix for this. Could you try out the issue-168 branch and let me know how that works for you. Could you please also verify that the issue you reported in #167 still exists in that branch.

Many thanks!

[netcarver]

@eliph I'd like to make the handling of this case more robust if I can - but I agree with your sentiment here.