Continuing the discussion from URLs in parenthesis do not turn into links:
Section 2.3 of RFC2396 states that:
Unreserved characters can be escaped without changing the semantics of the URI, but this should not be done unless the URI is being used in a context that does not allow the unescaped character to appear.
Parenthesis are such characters. When pasted into Discourse, URLs using those characters, e.g., in query strings for advanced search in certain contexts, are misinterpreted as part of the Markdown URL syntax and rendered unusable.
For example, this URL would retrieve a list of legally deposited books published by my association:
Although it works when pasted, as above, when used as a Markdown link, it does not work anymore:
[anchor](url) → [anchor](https://www.depotlegal.be/Depot/form.aspx?SC=KBRVITRINE1#/Search/(query:(AdvancedQuery:(queryGroups:!((queryClauses:!((index:KBR264b_idx,logical:0,operator:0,otherValue:!n,value:‘petites%20singularités’))
Moreover, when such an URL is received by email, the result is:
Recherche avancée - Depot)))),ForceSearch:!t,Grid:!n,Page:0,PageRange:3,QueryString:!n,ResultSize:-1,ScenarioCode:KBRVITRINE1,SearchContext:1))
where “Recherche avancée - Depot” is the correctly interpreted link title (which is clickable), and the rest is garbage – and absent from the clickable link. (Email is set to receive in HTML) Rebuilding HTML does not fix the link.
