You could also prefix the link by a string holding (in ascii) the number of bytes of the unencoded link. But that makes raw/manual editing of an org file much harder. 2017-08-14 18:26 GMT+02:00 Neil Jerram : > Except if your original string was "%org-9.0"... > > For this kind of approach to work, you generally need to prefix > everything; specifically included the cases that are _not_ encoded. > > Regards - Neil > > > > On 12/08/17 16:01, John Kitchin wrote: > >> I was thinking of something like how all PDF files start with something >> like %PDF-1.3. So any string that started with %org-9.0, for example >> would be certain to be encoded, whereas any other beginning would not be >> certain. >> >> Nicolas Goaziou writes: >> >> Hello, >>> >>> John Kitchin writes: >>> >>> Could you put some magic at the beginning of the string that indicates it >>>> is encoded? >>>> >>> I don't know. Could you elaborate a bit? >>> >>> Regards, >>> >> >> > > -- Fabrice Popineau ----------------------------- SUPELEC Département Informatique 3, rue Joliot Curie 91192 Gif/Yvette Cedex Tel direct : +33 (0) 169851950 Standard : +33 (0) 169851212 ------------------------------