Citeproc warning when using a Mastodon profile link

[andrewheiss]

Bug description

With the recent addition of the rel: me option to navbars, it's now possible to include a link to a Mastodon profile and have it be verified on their end:

website:
  title: "Blah"
  navbar:
    right:
      - icon: mastodon
        aria-label: mastodon
        href: https://fediscience.org/@andrew
        rel: me

Mastodon profile links typically include a @ in their URL, like https://fediscience.org/@andrew above. This causes a minor problem when working with citations, just like Twitter card issues in #1702. When a site's navbar has a URL with a @, it causes a pandoc warning:

[WARNING] Citeproc: citation andrew not found

It's not a breaking bug or anything, just kind of funny to see it happen with every page that gets rendered 🙃

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This is with Quarto 1.3.26 in RStudio 2022.07.2+576 (and also in VS Code) on macOS Monterey 12.6

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[mcanouil]

If you use explicit yaml string by adding double quotes around the url, does the issue still occur?

To note, your used "@" in several places, but the mastodon uri is the only place you did not make it clear to YAML that the value was a literal string.

[andrewheiss]

The issue still happens if it's quoted:

      - icon: mastodon
        aria-label: mastodon
        href: "https://fediscience.org/@andrew"
        rel: me

output file: index.knit.md

[WARNING] Citeproc: citation andrew not found

[cscheid]

@mcanouil quotes in this context won't change the resulting parsed string. YAML scalars are obnoxious. Usually I'd refrain from posting the spec, but y'all can take it :) https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/#73-flow-scalar-styles

@andrewheiss I'm relatively sure this is a bug on citeproc (or on how we interface with citeproc).

[andrewheiss]

Oh, as another possible workaround, I tried percent encoding the @ with %40, but there's a bug in Mastodon itself (mastodon/mastodon#15153) that makes that not work 🤷‍♂️

[cderv]

For reference the mastodon issue has been resolved and using %40 works now. This is the workaround to use until we managed to fix that, (if we can... )

[leofontenelle]

Just a data point: contrary to fediscience.org, mastodon.social is not interpreting %40 as @. Yesterday I thought it was interpreting too, but maybe it was just sleep deprivation.

Personally, I just took the Mastodon link from my navigation bar for now, and will be following this bug report.

BTW, thanks for Quarto so far!