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Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:

> mailto links like `mailto:foo+bar@somewhere.invalid' aren't handled
> correctly by `gnus-url-mailto'.  `gnus-url-mailto' calls
> `gnus-url-unhex-string' and the first line in this function
> translates "+" to " ":

I'm wondering if the "+" -> " " substitution is bogus not just for
mailto: but for all URI types.  I can't find anything in RFC 2396
stating that this substitution should be performed.

I guess that code should just be removed from `gnus-url-unhex-string'.