Item10151: Interwiki links do not work when destination topic contains parentheses

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When creating interwiki links using InterwikiPlugin, the plugin fails to properly create links if the destination topic name contains parentheses.

For example, Wikipedia:Fork works without trouble, but Wikipedia:Fork_(software_development) does not create the expected Wikipedia link. If you force link it, e.g., !Wikipedia:Fork_(software_development), the text will be tagged with a question mark, with a create link to a new page in the current web (e.g. Wikipedia:Fork_(software_development)).

In order to link to this Wikipedia topic, I have to url-encode the parentheses in the topic name, a requirement my users are unlikely to ever guess: Wikipedia:Fork_%28software_development%29.

-- WryFi - 12 Dec 2010

At the advice of pharvey in IRC, I tried editing the regex on line 59 of lib/Foswiki/Plugins/InterwikiPlugin.pm, but this alone was inadequate to fix the problem.

-- WryFi - 12 Dec 2010

Will be fixed in 1.1.3, or you can apply this patch if you need it now.

-- AndrewJones - 13 Dec 2010