Links with text fragments broken

[bowernite]

[test](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/09/balancing-line-length-font-size-responsive-web-design/#:~:text=65%20characters%20\(2.5%20times%20the%20roman%20alphabet\)%20is%20often%20referred%20to%20as%20the%20perfect%20measure.%20derived%20from%20this%20number%20is%20the%20ideal%20range%20that%20all%20designers%20should%20strive%20for%3A%2045%20to%2075%20characters%20(including%20spaces%20and%20punctuation\)%20per%20line%20for%20print)

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[petros]

I had an issue with my previously suggested URL. I switched to %28 and %29 encoding now and it seems to work everywhere.

[test](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/09/balancing-line-length-font-size-responsive-web-design/#:~:text=65%20characters%20%282.5%20times%20the%20roman%20alphabet%29%20is%20often%20referred%20to%20as%20the%20perfect%20measure.%20derived%20from%20this%20number%20is%20the%20ideal%20range%20that%20all%20designers%20should%20strive%20for%3A%2045%20to%2075%20characters%20%28including%20spaces%20and%20punctuation%29%20per%20line%20for%20print)

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[bowernite]

Ah, got it.

So, two thoughts:

1. I’d still argue that GitBook has an issue here — other renderers (as seen in the second test in the issue description above — GitHub handles the unescaped paren just fine) do fine with unescaped parens, periods, etc.
2. This is especially the case/exacerbated by the fact that utils in certain language (I’m using JavaScript, encodeURIComponent) which explicitly doesn’t escape parens, periods, etc.

I could always manually replace instances in my strings/links, but that seems like a workaround that would ideally be unecessary (for me and for others with the same issue).

[petros]

Thanks for the additional information. The question is whether GitHub diverges from the standard though. With GitHub Flavored Markdown. We can definitely research this a bit.

[bowernite]

Awesome! Yeah I’d be curious to see what other sites do. Like I said in my original support message, VS Code’s markdown preview also supports unescaped for these characters. And they specifically don’t subscribe to GitHub flavored markdown, but rather just CommonMark.