Problem with links in Markdown

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Am 21.06.2013 um 05:44 schrieb Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis at gmx.de>:


> * Alexander Veit <lbloom at gmx.net> [2013-06-20 20:50]:

>> recently I stumbled over a problem with the Markdown link syntax[1]

>> 

>> This is [an example](http://example.com/ "Title") inline link.

>> 

>> RFC 2396[2], section 2.3 defines left and right parentheses to be mark

>> characters, and thus unreserved characters in URIs.  This means that

>> left and right parentheses do not need to be percent encoded in URIs.

> 

> I’ve run into this as well.

> 

> The easiest solution (which, since you’re already writing the link

> inline, is not much of a loss) is to work around it by falling back

> to HTML for the link in question, i.e. write it as <a href="">.

> 

> It’s a wart, but can be lived with.

> 

> Regards,

> -- 

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I guess a more elegant workaround would be to use reference style since there is no need for [brackets][1]

[1]: example.com/wiki/(brackets)