From bc06135c96aa4db6fe36a4fc4f19a18fa1cb8935 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B8rn=20Erik=20Pedersen?=
 <bjorn.erik.pedersen@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 19:29:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] helpers: Allow tilde in URLs

See #2177
---
 helpers/path.go      | 2 +-
 helpers/path_test.go | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/helpers/path.go b/helpers/path.go
index 6e2422d05..2e154062e 100644
--- a/helpers/path.go
+++ b/helpers/path.go
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ func (p *PathSpec) UnicodeSanitize(s string) string {
 	for i, r := range source {
 		if r == '%' && i+2 < len(source) && ishex(source[i+1]) && ishex(source[i+2]) {
 			target = append(target, r)
-		} else if unicode.IsLetter(r) || unicode.IsDigit(r) || unicode.IsMark(r) || r == '.' || r == '/' || r == '\\' || r == '_' || r == '-' || r == '#' || r == '+' {
+		} else if unicode.IsLetter(r) || unicode.IsDigit(r) || unicode.IsMark(r) || r == '.' || r == '/' || r == '\\' || r == '_' || r == '-' || r == '#' || r == '+' || r == '~' {
 			target = append(target, r)
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/helpers/path_test.go b/helpers/path_test.go
index 049499108..f1407fb15 100644
--- a/helpers/path_test.go
+++ b/helpers/path_test.go
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ func TestMakePath(t *testing.T) {
 		{"संस्कृत", "संस्कृत", false},
 		{"a%C3%B1ame", "a%C3%B1ame", false},         // Issue #1292
 		{"this+is+a+test", "this+is+a+test", false}, // Issue #1290
+		{"~foo", "~foo", false},                     // Issue #2177
+
 	}
 
 	for _, test := range tests {