Support browsing URLs with embedded spaces on MS-Windows

* lisp/net/browse-url.el (browse-url-default-windows-browser):
Unhex %XX hex-encoded characters, as w32-shell-execute doesn't
support that in file:// URLs.  (Bug#26014)

diff --git a/lisp/net/browse-url.el b/lisp/net/browse-url.el
index a7c879cbfbcef080a9e1686ec31564446a20b584..04b49c44313ad0b6ff2acc350c5566ea1ec29ff2 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/net/browse-url.el
+++ b/lisp/net/browse-url.el
@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ The optional NEW-WINDOW argument is not used."
           (error "Browsing URLs is not supported on this system")))
        ((eq system-type 'cygwin)
         (call-process "cygstart" nil nil nil url))
-       (t (w32-shell-execute "open" url))))
+       (t (w32-shell-execute "open" (url-unhex-string url)))))
 
 (defun browse-url-default-macosx-browser (url &optional _new-window)
   "Invoke the macOS system's default Web browser.