[Boards Bug] Cannot use parentheses properly with links

Modi·11/29/2018, 5:41:12 AM·1 votes·3,014 views

Example: (I am linking to google with a trailing parenthesis)

The trailing parenthesis does not display in preview, and I assume will not display in the rendered page, either. If it does display here, then it is a bug with the preview functionality only. This is only a problem when the trailing parenthesis immediately follows the link's closing parenthesis

Edit: @boards dev, edit/quote my post to see the source text, for this example

6 Comments

AeroWaffle11/29/2018, 6:49:32 AM1 votes

Solution,

Use the '' as a character escape along with a space.

( Use Quote to see this example )

Though it looks like the space is necessary to break away from the link detection.

Many characters in markup languages that have special functions need to be escaped to show properly without triggering the special effect.

The '#' character is like this at the start of lines, for example;

#Without escaping the pound sign #Escaping the pound sign

KFCeytron12/3/2018, 3:37:56 AM1 votes

The HTML character code for a closing parenthesis is 41.

([site](https://www.google.com)) → (site)