Automatic link creation for URLs in wiki markup does not include ending paren

[anonymous]

If a URL ends in a closing parenthesis (i.e., ")"), the automatic generation of a link for wiki markup does not include this character.

For example, the autogenerated link for ​http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#wait(long) doesn't include it, and instead generates the following HTML

<a class="ext-link" href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#wait(long"><span class="icon">http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#wait(long</span></a>)

There is a workaround, which is to use the square bracket format, like ​I include my closing paren.

[Christian Boos]

Well, the syntax of links in wiki text is intended to mix well with the way people usually use them in plain text, like in e-mails. It's quite common to write a link within parenthesis, or at the end of a sentence. For this reason, and ending "." or ")" are never considered to be part of a link. If you want more control over the target of the link, you've already figured out that you can explicitly do so by encapsulating it in square brackets [...]:

[http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#wait(long)  I include my closing paren].

The exceptional case must require some form of quoting, not the common one.

[jidanni@…]

On ​https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/14697#comment:4 I had to write ​​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nielsen_(usability_consultant%29 Indeed looking like a laughing stock… but ​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nielsen_(usability_consultant) is a disaster.

[anonymous]

You can write:

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nielsen_(usability_consultant)]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nielsen_(usability_consultant) Jakob Nielsen]
* https:"//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nielsen_(usability_consultant)"
* or even wikipedia:"Jakob_Nielsen_(usability_consultant)" 

To get:

• ​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nielsen_(usability_consultant)
• ​Jakob Nielsen
• ​https:"//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nielsen_(usability_consultant)"
• or even ​wikipedia:"Jakob_Nielsen_(usability_consultant)"

[Christian Boos]

Or: <​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nielsen_(usability_consultant)>.

Keeping parentheses out is a must so that we can easily embed an URL within parentheses (e.g. ​http://trac.edgewall.org). Same reasoning (and workarounds) for other trailing punctuation, but I see I already explained this in comment:1 ;-)