On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(a)endpoint.com> wrote:
Martin Brunner asked:
The problem now is, that many mail clients (such
as Outlook Web-App) won't
recognize the ) being part of the URL and just will open
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_(disambiguation
on click - which does not work of course.
So this might be a failure of most browser or mail clients - but can this be
solved via Mediawiki?
I cannot see an easy way, other than completely disallowing parens in your
wiki by modifying $wgLegalTitleChars. Rather a brute force approach of course.
See
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40265#2115036 for an overview.
and
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T13056 for much earlier (2007)
technical discussion.
IIUC, this needs to be filed/solved upstream, as most (?) email
clients are now successfully handling paired parentheses within links.