Links with [] in can be truncated

[Arantor]

If you have a link such as:

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https://custom.simplemachines.org/index.php?action=themes;major_smf_versions[2.1]=2.1
you need to wrap it in [url] but if you let the preprocessor handle it (e.g. by way of non AJAX preview) you end up with the following construction:

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[url]https://custom.simplemachines.org/index.php?action=themes;major_smf_versions[2.1]=2.1[/url]
which gets turned into

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[url="https://custom.simplemachines.org/index.php?action=themes;major_smf_versions[2.1]=2.1"]https://custom.simplemachines.org/index.php?action=themes;major_smf_versions[2.1]=2.1[/url]
but the link is truncated at the first closing bracket.

[Arantor]

Incidentally this is one reason Unknown used to test with brackets so that he could verify quoting would correctly attribute his name with the square brackets.