attempting to link to a url that contains parenthesis acts oddly

[lschierer]

attempting to link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samodiva_(folklore) with a link such as

"[Samodiva (folklore)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samodiva_(folklore))"

produces a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samodiva_(folklore (note the missing closing paren).

"[Samodiva (folklore)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samodiva_(folklore\))"

works.

I would understand if I had to escape both opening and closing paren, or if I had to escape neither. Having to escape only the closing one seems counter-intuitive.

I'm using discount 2.2.6-1 from ubuntu focal, with libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.12-1, via ikiwiki 3.20200202.3-1, all installed from ubuntu's packages.

[Orc]

That, sadly, is how it's supposed to work -- the reference implementation (https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus) also clips at the first closing paren. Alas, you're gonna have to escape the closing paren in the url :-(

[lschierer]

Well far be it for me to argue against interoperability. Is there a good way to report bugs upstream (for lack of a better word)?

[Orc]

You can talk to John Gruber @ daringfireball about it, but be forewarned that Markdown is a very stable standard and afaik has not been modified in a decade.

[Orc]

(fyi to anyone reading; discount is a Markdown implementation, not a stackoverflowmark or multimarkdown implementation, and I try to maintain compatibility with Markdown instead of those other much more volatile standards.)

[lschierer]

I depend on a couple of the extensions that discount *does* support, such as footnotes, that it looks like would not be supported by switching.  This bug is not nearly annoying enough to give up the benefits of all the things that *do* work well with discount.  

[binki]

Certainly. But if you want to report something upstream or fix/update the Markdown spec, you’re probably looking for something other than Markdown ;-).