diff --git a/modules/markup/html.go b/modules/markup/html.go
index f5f811b59b..500261bf8f 100644
--- a/modules/markup/html.go
+++ b/modules/markup/html.go
@@ -632,16 +632,18 @@ func shortLinkProcessorFull(ctx *postProcessCtx, node *html.Node, noLink bool) {
// When parsing HTML, x/net/html will change all quotes which are
// not used for syntax into UTF-8 quotes. So checking val[0] won't
// be enough, since that only checks a single byte.
- if (strings.HasPrefix(val, "“") && strings.HasSuffix(val, "”")) ||
- (strings.HasPrefix(val, "‘") && strings.HasSuffix(val, "’")) {
- const lenQuote = len("‘")
- val = val[lenQuote : len(val)-lenQuote]
- } else if (strings.HasPrefix(val, "\"") && strings.HasSuffix(val, "\"")) ||
- (strings.HasPrefix(val, "'") && strings.HasSuffix(val, "'")) {
- val = val[1 : len(val)-1]
- } else if strings.HasPrefix(val, "'") && strings.HasSuffix(val, "’") {
- const lenQuote = len("‘")
- val = val[1 : len(val)-lenQuote]
+ if len(val) > 1 {
+ if (strings.HasPrefix(val, "“") && strings.HasSuffix(val, "”")) ||
+ (strings.HasPrefix(val, "‘") && strings.HasSuffix(val, "’")) {
+ const lenQuote = len("‘")
+ val = val[lenQuote : len(val)-lenQuote]
+ } else if (strings.HasPrefix(val, "\"") && strings.HasSuffix(val, "\"")) ||
+ (strings.HasPrefix(val, "'") && strings.HasSuffix(val, "'")) {
+ val = val[1 : len(val)-1]
+ } else if strings.HasPrefix(val, "'") && strings.HasSuffix(val, "’") {
+ const lenQuote = len("‘")
+ val = val[1 : len(val)-lenQuote]
+ }
}
props[key] = val
}