Markdown URL fails for some strings

[the-phinet]

Describe the issue

If a link includes a colon (:), it must be url-encoded (%3A) in order for it to work properly.

According to this, raw colon characters may appear in paths, if the path is not relative. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#section-3.3

Github and onlinemarkdown.com allow the colon as-is, weblate and stackedit.io require the encoding pass.

As far as I can tell, there's no way to make the link display correctly. escaping the colon and underscores makes the links still re

I already tried

• I've read and searched the documentation.
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Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Add a translation
2. Add an explanation with the following link: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/E1M2:_Storage_Facility_(Chex_Quest)
3. Save and observe

Expected behavior

Link appears like this: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/E1M2:_Storage_Facility_(Chex_Quest)

Screenshots

Bad:

Fine, but inconvenient:

Perfect, but very inconvenient:

Exception traceback

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weblate.org service

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Additional context

It's a minor inconvenience, but not a big deal. Just makes copying wiki articles annoying

[the-phinet]

Actually, I just found a use case that I cannot make work at all with escaping. Text fragments: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Chex_Quest_cheat_codes#:~:text=davidbrus

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