isURI: don't require non-ASCII characters to be escaped.

Closes #8508.

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/URI.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/URI.hs
index 345ada768..7addd2844 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/URI.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/URI.hs
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import qualified Network.HTTP.Types as HTTP
 import qualified Text.Pandoc.UTF8 as UTF8
 import qualified Data.Text as T
 import qualified Data.Set as Set
-import Data.Char (isSpace)
+import Data.Char (isSpace, isAscii)
 import Network.URI (URI (uriScheme), parseURI, escapeURIString)
 
 urlEncode :: T.Text -> T.Text
@@ -90,7 +90,9 @@ schemes = Set.fromList
 -- | Check if the string is a valid URL with a IANA or frequently used but
 -- unofficial scheme (see @schemes@).
 isURI :: T.Text -> Bool
-isURI = maybe False hasKnownScheme . parseURI . T.unpack
+isURI =
+  -- we URI-escape non-ASCII characters because otherwise parseURI will choke:
+  maybe False hasKnownScheme . parseURI . escapeURIString isAscii . T.unpack
   where
     hasKnownScheme = (`Set.member` schemes) . T.toLower .
                      T.filter (/= ':') . T.pack . uriScheme
diff --git a/test/command/8508.md b/test/command/8508.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6a8932a1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/command/8508.md
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+```
+% pandoc -t man
+SEE ALSO
+========
+
+* [Milk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk)
+* [EBNF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Backus–Naur_form)
+^D
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.IP \[bu] 2
+Milk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk)
+.IP \[bu] 2
+EBNF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Backus–Naur_form)
+```