Bug with embedded quotes in links

Question

Is this a known bug?

A link with quotes is visible at preview time, but not visible when actually posted.

The above "link" word at preview time points to this URL (which, as a line on its own at least partially works):

http://www.google.com/search?q="green+bits"+"red+bits"

Workaround: fully encode the URL.

Edit:

After reading https://stackoverflow.com/editing-help (thanks Jeff) and trying to understand what George means, here are some samples in code format to make my question more clear:

This format does not work:

[link][5] 
[5]: http://www.google.com/search?q="green+bits"+"red+bits"

This format does not work either:

[link][6] 
[6]: <http://www.google.com/search?q="green+bits"+"red+bits">

This format works (but requires you to encode the URL, so you cannot copy/paste from your browseers' address bar):

[link][7] 
[7]: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22green%2Bbits%22%2B%22red%2Bbits%22

Answer 1

See

https://stackoverflow.com/editing-help

for 4-5 different linking formats

edit: the sanitizer doesn't like the non-encoded " remaining in the URL. I added it to the list of characters encoded in EncodeProblemUrlChars().

Answer 2

The answer isn't to fully encode the URL, the answer is to use an identifier and not just have a stock URL sitting on a page.