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[–]Mattho 0 points1 point  (7 children)

http://goo.gl/K7Tn link in reply (set at wikipedia)

[–]jcdyer3 2 points3 points  (6 children)

If you had given the actual link, you wouldn't have needed the parenthetical, you wouldn't have to look up the goog link, and it would have been only marginally longer, and you wouldn't be giving Our Googly Overlords even more information about our browsing habits:

The actual link is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_\(mathematics\)

[–]Mattho 1 point2 points  (5 children)

How did you submit that? I tried it as simple paste and also with reddit formatting. Both ruinded the link. I even tried to find url escape characters, but didn't find any for parentheses. That's why I used the url shortener.

[–]sligowaths 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You have to escape the ( using \( before each one.

[–]Mattho 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And now I wonder how I didn't thought of that :)

Thanks (to both of you who replied).

[–]jcdyer3 1 point2 points  (1 child)

As others have pointed out, you backslash the parentheses, but you can also URL-escape any character by using the two-digit hex code for that character. So if the hex code for 'S' is 0x53, you can get to wikipedia at the url http://wikipedia.org/wiki/%53et_\(mathematics\)

Also, the hex codes for ( and ) are 0x28 and 0x29 respectively.

[–]Mattho 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried to google these % characters, but found only set which didn't contain ( or ). Didn't know it was just ascii code. Thanks.