fix: Percent-encode Markdown reserved symbols in URLs #26
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While these symbols are generally considered valid in URLs, they are a part of Markdown syntax. This can cause problems in some MD renderers, like in Discord embeds, where URLs containing these symbols sometimes break.
Code example:
Output:
Currently the second example is just plain wrong - an underscore between
Chandrayaan
and1
has gone missing and the URL is broken. The first example is less obvious, but the brackets at the end confuse Discord on Android, while the encoded version works just fine.Since I was already making this change, I also chose to encode the
*
symbol, as it is also significant in Markdown and could cause problems.Test results:
Benchmark: