#66 Percent sign in URL field raises an exception, escaping it produces invalid output

[Anonymous]

I have several entries in a bibliography file where the URL field contains encoded characters. For example:

@Article{Anders99,
...
Doi = {10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<2741:amciot>2.0.co;2},
Url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<2741%3AAMCIOT>2.0.CO%3B2}
}

When I attempt to build a document with Sphinx, I get the following output:

parsing bibtex file PROJECT/docs/refs.bib...
Exception occurred:
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pybtex/errors.py", line 78, in report_error
raise exception
TokenRequired: '}' expected

If I escape the percent characters with a leading slash, the bib file is parsed but the URL includes the slashes and so the link is broken.

In addition, the DOI field includes characters that need to be escaped (':' and ';'). In the link that Sphinx produces, these characters are correctly escaped as '%3A' and '%3B', but the percent signs are again escaped with leading slashes and so the DOI URL is also broken. I am not sure whether this is also a bug in pybtex, or if the problem is elsewhere in my toolchain (sphinx or sphinxcontrib.bibtex).

[Anonymous]

Sorry, ignore the final paragraph of my original report, the DOI URL is fine.