Merge pull request #295 from dairiki/bug.escape_url

Mistune.util.escape_url is too aggressive

Author: lepture

mistune/util.py

@@ -20,7 +20,12 @@ def escape(s, quote=True):
 
 
 def escape_url(link):
-    safe = '/#:()*?=%@+,&'
+    safe = (
+        ':/?#@'           # gen-delims - '[]' (rfc3986)
+        '!$&()*+,;='      # sub-delims - "'" (rfc3986)
+        '%'               # leave already-encoded octets alone
+    )
+
     if html is None:
         return quote(link.encode('utf-8'), safe=safe)
     return html.escape(quote(html.unescape(link), safe=safe))