Italics break correct rendering of links with underline(s) in the URL

[AltoRetrato]

I’m seeing issues with links that contain underscores - such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics) - when the link text is italicized.

Here is a sample Markdown:

[copula](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics)) 
_[copula](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics))_  
*[copula](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics))*

| [copula](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics))   |     |
| ------------------------------------------------------------- | --- |
| _[copula](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics))_ |     |
| *[copula](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics))* |     |

How it appears in editing view:

How it appears in reading view:

Escaping the underline as %5f in the URL solves the issue, but I have many such links imported from Evernote. Seems like an edge case, possibly a bug in the Markdown parser’s regex or pattern matching that might be relatively easy to fix.

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[blue_emperor]

I can reproduce it although removing parentheses doesn’t produce the issue.

[copula](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics)) 
_[copula](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics))_  
*[copula](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics))*

| [copula](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics))   |     |
| ------------------------------------------------------------- | --- |
| _[copula](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_linguistics)_ |     |
| *[copula](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics))* |     |

[anon80950206]

Hello.

Could you use …

[_copula_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics)) 
*[copula](<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics)>)*

[AltoRetrato]

You are absolutely right. At first, when I found this issue, I even thought that it was caused by the parentheses, but replacing them with, e.g., square (“[”) or curly (“{”) brackets, we also have the same result. So it is actually an issue caused by a few factors.

[AltoRetrato]

Ah, you mean formatting only the label of the URL?

[_copula_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics))
[*copula*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics))

It works! I should have thought of that!
Thanks!

[anon80950206]

Or escaping the URL in angled brackets should also work:

1. [_copula_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics)) 
2. [*copula*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics))
3. *[copula](<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics)>)*

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