Pasting a link with a hashtag using the hyperlink button replaces the hashtag with its url encoding

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Say I want to post the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Atwood#External_links

If I create a text link using the hyperlink button, and paste in the above link, it becomes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Atwood%23External_links

The # was replaced with %23. Unfortunately, some webpages can’t handle that switch as well as Wikipedia, so links break.

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@techapj can you take this?

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Fixed via

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3217

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