Urlize fails with Markdown url string

[anon]

Following template tag fails with "Invalid IPv6 URL":

{{ "Text [Dr. Bunsen (Seth Brown)](​http://drbunsen.org) more text"|urlize }}

[Roman Gladkov]

You really want it? Markdown himself makes link, or try it

>>> Template("""Text [Dr. Bunsen (Seth Brown)]({{ "http://drbunsen.org"|urlize }}) more text""").render(c)
u'Text [Dr. Bunsen (Seth Brown)](<a href="http://drbunsen.org" rel="nofollow">http://drbunsen.org</a>) more text'

[pelletier]

According to ​the documentation the urlize filter is not meant to handle markdown formatting. In fact, it only supports plain URLs and a very simple syntax (text of your link http://yourlink).

Unsurprisingly, when you use it on some markdown, the matching won't work as expected. Here, the URL Django finds is http://Brown)](http://drbunsen.org, which is why it eventually fails.

In my opinion it's a wontfix: I think Django does not have to implement markdown-specific functions, and as d1ffuz0r pointed out, you have a way to achieve your (apparent) goal. However, I set it as a DDN because some people may think otherwise.

[Claude Paroz]

Same opinion here. Markdown syntax should be passed to the "|markdown" filter.