Pasting a URL with "()" characters inside the editor breaks the link

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      Issue Summary

      When pasting web link that includes bracket characters "()" in the editor, it breaks it and only link the part before the brackets, in the example below, editor will only recognise the URL before the () characters, the rest is inserted as a text

      https://www.atlassian.com/try/cloud/signup?bundle=confluence&edition()free_test

      Steps to Reproduce

      1. Copy an external link which contains round brackets "()"
      2. Paste it into Confluence editor.
      3. Save the page.

      Expected Results

      The whole URL should be added as a link 

      Actual Results

      Only the part before the brackets is added as a link, the rest of the URL is text

      Workaround

      The parenthesis characters can be percent-encoded as %28 and %29 as per https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-2.2

            Assignee:
            Maxim Leizerovich
            Reporter:
            Mohamed K (Inactive)
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