Conditionally process url instead of encoding

[marcselman]

Markdown links will automatically be URL encoded when turned into an HTML anchor.
Is it possible to process the url string instead of it gettingURL encoded?

For example:

This is [a test](#|MY_URL|#). Normal [link](https://url.com/my|title)

will be turned into:

This is <a href="#%7CMY_URL%7C#">a test</a>. Normal <a href="https://url.com/my%7Ctitle">link</a>

I want to match urls that start with #| and end with |# and replace that with *| and |* consecutively and skip url encoding (because it will be sent to another process that expects this format).
So that the output would be:

This is <a href="*|MY_URL|*">a test</a>. Normal <a href="https://url.com/my%7Ctitle">link</a>

Is that possible by creating an extension for example?

[xoofx]

Is that possible by creating an extension for example?

Yes, there are many potential solutions, but maybe inheriting LinkInlineRenderer to override the default renderer and avoid the encoding is a good place to try.

[jjxtra]

How to override / inherit in this way?