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This question was recently closed as a duplicate of (![]+[])[+[]]… Explain why this works. However, the inserted link blows up as the weird title does not get escaped properly in the resulting markdown.
Of course, a point could be made that the title of the question should be changed, but it would still probably be a good idea to get the escaping right, as these characters are allowed in a title and do not carry any special meaning there, only when copied verbatim into markdown code.
This will be fixed in the next build. We'll be escaping [ and ] as we already do for question titles inserted into the "possible duplicate..." comments.
[title](link) format that blows up here. We use that shorthand because the "Possible duplicate:" section needs to be completely self-contained.
Sep 27, 2011 at 15:11
__code__ in the title is linked, and that is of course interpreted as markdown. Since titles are plain text, any markdown markup should be ignored.
Jul 2, 2012 at 11:22
There's an easy fix for this. Instead of inserting this:
> **Possible Duplicate:**
> [(![]+[])[+[]]… Explain why this works](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4170978/explain-why-this-works)
<!-- End of automatically inserted text -->
Just insert this:
> **Possible Duplicate:**
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4170978/explain-why-this-works
<!-- End of automatically inserted text -->
The link gets displayed as the question title anyways (without needing to explicitly specify the title) like so:
Possible Duplicate:
(![]+[])[+[]]... Explain why this works
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4170978: keep the title out of it altogether.
Oct 10, 2011 at 18:46