URLs with parentheses are not converting properly.

[Pomax]

Using the following markup:

[青 ("ao")](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ao_(color))

leads to a link that actually looks like 青 ("ao")) with the link's own parenthesis getting cut off (marked seems to be treating the first ) it sees as link terminator, instead of taking nesting into account)

[rgbkrk]

Definitely an issue, that I see happening across the web from users of marked.

[bendecoste]

Is there an ETA for a fix on this ?

[Pomax]

I have no expectation that @chjj will ever fix this, but it's mostly a bug that stems from a bad assumption in https://github.com/chjj/marked/blob/master/lib/marked.js#L467, which is terminal: unless someone introduces a "respect nesting" operator to JavaScript's RegEx engine, it is impossible to user regular expressions in a way that properly deals with blocks/nesting.

(which is why we typically don't parse structure syntax with regex, but with tokenizers instead)

I was thinking of trying to fix this, but "fix" in this case means "write a new parser that doesn't rely on regex", and that's not happening. So: if you need links in which the URI contains (), don't use marked.js

[Pomax]

filed #630 as PR to at least make it explicit that this is a pure RegEx parser, with all the limitations that brings with it.

[joshbruce]

#984