How to handle URLs with brackets?

[ulenrich]

in my post
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8439846.html#8439846
at the end there is an URL of the WHO site which I don't know how to handle correctly.
How to ?

[NeddySeagoon]

ulenrich,

Look at the ASCII character table.

Any printable character there can be replaced with %<hex>.
So '(' becomes %28

The ) is left as an exercise for the reader. :)
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[ulenrich]

So, this dragon of an URL
https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/30-01-2020-statement-on-the-second-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations- .....
becomes:
https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/30-01-2020-statement-on-the-second-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations-%282005)-emergency-committee-regarding-the-outbreak-of-novel-coronavirus-%282019-ncov)

or my URL of the WHO

[Hu]

You may also find man ascii useful as a local reference for character codes. Vim users can use ga to display the value of the character under the cursor. If you need to look up the codes of many characters at once, the tool xxd (from app-editors/vim-core) can produce a hex dump of its entire input.

[Ant P.]

Just ctrl+c it from the browser url bar and it's encoded automatically.