URLs with Parentheses Mess Up Displayed Links

Add a trailing underscore after the (close paranthes). It's a weird Unicode bug I think, totally annoying. But this fixes it.

It is not a unicode bug, - parentheses are simply not valid characters in an URL, - you see them as that is some browsers, but technically they are not encoded as parentheses, - the ( is actually encoded as %28 and the ) as %29 when you enters them as a URL and click load.

The solution is as you would conclude: replace at least the ) with %29 a project description or about-me.

One good help is to use another webreader, like mozilla,
when you copy the link in the adressfoeld, it automatically
turns it to valid characters, work for me anyway.
This is the past result
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Kootenay_%28DDE_258%29

Fabulous! Thanks a million friends.

The solution is to replace ( and ) with %28 and %29. I think it is a problem in the code that converts the markup format in "about" fields ( [ url description ] ) into <a href="url">description</a> - it considers ) to end the URL, and it shouldn't.

actually ( and ) ARE allowed in the "path" part of URLs. RFC 3968 section 2.2, definition of "sub-delims", which are allowed in "segment".

You are correct that the main problem is the text parser in Geni not understanding that the trailing ) should be a part of the URL, but a RFC is still just a RFC, - suggestions that might lead to a standard...

In the case of RFC 3968, it's a Best Current Practice.
The naming of Internet standards is peculiar, but you don't get to be more standard than that..... (says the man who wrote the "Mission statement for the IETF"....)

I have filed a bug: http://help.geni.com/requests/83785

(Posting here with full knowledge that nobody can probably read it anyhow, for whatever reason).

It's a "feature" of zendesk that filing a bug report for others to "me too" is not under "submit a request.". That opens a private ticket, as you note.

It's the "suggest an idea" button:

http://help.geni.com/forums/338907-bug-reports/entries/new