Alias/link doesn't work if the link contains parentheses

[benjamindv36]

Describe the bug

When trying to create a link to a web address containing parentheses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework) in this case), it doesn't turn into a link.

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To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a link containing parentheses (such as Electron)
2. Roam will not recognize it as a link

System Information:

• Roam version: 0.7.5-da60adcc
• Device: Computer
• OS: Windows 10
• Browser: Chrome

[wfischer42]

Ran into the same problem. If you need something to make it work until it's fixed, you can manually URL encode the parentheses with %28 and %29.

[Electron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_%28software_framework%29)

[benjamindv36]

Great! Thank you for the fix.

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday 1 December 2020 13:54, William Fischer notifications@github.com wrote:

Ran into the same problem. If you need something to make it work until it's fixed, you can manually URL encode the parentheses with %28 and %29.

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[keenanpayne]

Thanks for documenting this problem; I just ran into the same issue with an article on Wikipedia.

@wfischer42 Thank you for the quick fix! Looking forward to when these URLs are properly encoded in Roam.

[Soleone]

Thanks for creating this issue! This is actually causing a bunch of work for me:

Typically I have headlines for topics like:

[thing](url)

• fact 1
• fact 2

But whenever the URL contains parentheses (and yes, it's mostly wikipedia for me as well right now) I instead do the following structure to make it more quickly readable:

thing

• wikipedia (i collapse this to make the whole thing more concise)
  • url
• fact 1
• fact 2