Relative links in org writer not being detected correctly

[iicurtis]

When converting from markdown to org, typically relative links get converted to the format [[file: file.md][description]]. However, this appears to be broken if the link starts with any of /, ./, ../. Is there a way to get this detection working on files that are not in the current directory?

Example input:

This link is detected correctly and gets 'file:':

[working-file-link](working-link.md)

This link does not:

[broken-link](../broken-link.md)

Output:

This link is detected correctly and gets 'file:':

[[file:working-link.md][working-file-link]]

This link does not:

[[../broken-link.md][broken-link]]

Expected output

This link is detected correctly and gets 'file:':

[[file:working-link.md][working-file-link]]

This link does not:

[[file:../broken-link.md][broken-link]]

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[iicurtis]

If I am understanding the org writer code correctly, org mode implies a file: link if it starts with a directory (/, ./, or ../). Pandoc's output is then the expected behavior.

Since I was using code from https://github.com/jml/obsidian-to-org to replace internal links with org-id references, I will simply identify both explicit and implied file links to replace.