I have the following bib entry
@Online{AUSNET:2019,
title = "{Schedule of Network Use of System Tariffs}",
author = {AusNet Services},
year = {2019},
url= {https://www.aer.gov.au/system/files/AER%20approved%20-%20AusNet%20Services%20-%20Schedule%20of%20Tariffs%202019%20-%20last%20updated%205%20December%202018.pdf},
lastaccessed = {2020-01-08}
}
The url contains spaces which are encoded to %20. One would normally construct a url as https://www.aer.gov.au/system/files/AER approved - AusNet Services - Schedule of Tariffs 2019 - last updated 5 December 2018.pdf
What is the usual convention for bibliography entries? If I use the encoded url in my bib file entry it is displayed in the bibliography with the encoding which isn't really intended for human consumption, i.e. https://www.aer.gov.au/system/files/AER%20approved%20-%20AusNet%20Services%20-%20Schedule%20of%20Tariffs%202019%20-%20last%20updated%205%20December%202018.pdf
If I use spaces in place of %20 in the bib entry my bibliography shows the link as https://www.aer.gov.au/system/files/AERapproved-AusNetServices-ScheduleofTariffs2019-lastupdated5December2018.pdf
In both cases clicking takes me to the correct resource but neither are being displayed in the conventional manner.
I'm using the ACM latex template if that makes any difference.
Edit: I discovered that by passing obeyspaces
to the \documentclass
command (i.e. \documentclass[sigconf,obeyspaces]{acmart}
) and by updating my bib entry as below produces a valid link. I'm still interested as to what the normal convention is - I keep reading that the %20 should be displayed to allow people to copy the link into a browser - however I don't accept this as it should be the responsibility of the browser to encode the url so any modern browser should accept a url with spaces - most of these posts are circa 2013 - 2015 so perhaps they weren't complient back then though?
@Online{AUSNET:2019,
title = "{Schedule of Network Use of System Tariffs}",
author = {AusNet Services},
year = {2019},
url= {https://www.aer.gov.au/system/files/AER approved - AusNet Services - Schedule of Tariffs 2019 - last updated 5 December 2018.pdf},
lastaccessed = {2020-01-08}
}