Merge pull request #7778 from tk0miya/7723_pdflatex_URL_having_singlequote

Fix #7723: LaTeX: pdflatex crashed when URL contains a single quote

CHANGES

@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ Bugs fixed
 * #7646: handle errors on event handlers
 * #4187: LaTeX: EN DASH disappears from PDF bookmarks in Japanese documents
 * #7701: LaTeX: Anonymous indirect hyperlink target causes duplicated labels
+* #7723: LaTeX: pdflatex crashed when URL contains a single quote
 * #7756: py domain: The default value for positional only argument is not shown
 * #7760: coverage: Add :confval:`coverage_show_missing_items` to show coverage
   result to console

sphinx/writers/latex.py

@@ -1977,7 +1977,8 @@ class LaTeXTranslator(SphinxTranslator):
         #       mainly, %, #, {, } and \ need escaping via a \ escape
         # in \href, the tilde is allowed and must be represented literally
         return self.encode(text).replace('\\textasciitilde{}', '~').\
-            replace('\\sphinxhyphen{}', '-')
+            replace('\\sphinxhyphen{}', '-').\
+            replace('\\textquotesingle{}', "'")
 
     def visit_Text(self, node: Text) -> None:
         text = self.encode(node.astext())