# Links with underbars surrounded by hyphens render incorrectly

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-with-underbars-surrounded-by-hyphens-render-incorrectly/97913>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [September 24, 2018, 7:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-with-underbars-surrounded-by-hyphens-render-incorrectly/97913 "2018-09-24T07:52:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-with-underbars-surrounded-by-hyphens-render-incorrectly/97913/2 "2018-09-24T15:05:53Z")

</div>

This was already opened in the context of a Twitter user with similar character patterns in username, rendering linking to that twitter profile very difficult.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-with-underbars-surrounded-by-hyphens-render-incorrectly/97913)._