[JimJames]

I don't know if this is standard or not but there is a way of dealing with that on reddit.

[test](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd904817\(v=office.1...

That'll work fine, just insert a backslash before the character and it'll be treated purely as a character instead of a formatting marker.

[iso8859-1]

escaping makes parsing too complex. i'd rather just be forced to use %29, which is the closing parenthesis URL encoded.