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URLs ending with a close parentheses are not linked properly

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#255 opened on Oct 22, 2014

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Description

Not if there are other characters that have this occur, but I noticed it with this url:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(Andy_Weir)

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Inspect the regex or function that converts URLs to links and add support for closing parentheses at the end of URLs.
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javascript
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