Writer does not check for spaces in hyperlinks and blindly transforms them in %20 As a result, it is very easy to create non-working hyperlinks when cutting and pasting from a source where the link target is followed by one or more spaces Writer should cull the spaces at the end of target hyperlinks or at least warn they exist when the target is set or modified
Reproduced in 3.5.1 on Fedora 64 bit Steps to reproduce 0. Start Writer 1. Enter some text 2. Select text and do Insert->Hyperlink 3. enter web address into "Target" field with spaces at end 4. Ctrl-click resulting link. Expected: start web-browser Actually: nothing happens If "Target" field contains spaces, it not transforms to http://address/ form. Just remains as is. May be such behaviour is useful for non-http address? But there selected that it is Web, in tooltip written "Create an http hyperlink".
Thomas Arnhold committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=e7841b62456fcb5743f4ab60a4e967883260c7db fdo#45777: handling of whitespaces in hyperlinks The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Thanks for improving this dialog