How do you write a link containing a closing bracket in markdown syntax?

Question

Markdown syntax for a link is pretty simple:

[Example](http://example.com/)

produces:

Example

Answer 1

Sometimes you need to encode ) with %29.

[Syntax](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_(programming_languages%29)

E.g.: This was the only method I could find to get a correct Markdown preview in the Atom Editor.

Answer 2

You can try to escape the character:

[Syntax](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_\(programming_languages\))

You can also encode the characters

[Syntax](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_%28programming_languages%29)

Answer 3

You don't have to scape it at all.

On GitHub, I've just done the following without any problems:

[Slowloris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowloris_(computer_security))

Actually, even here you can use it directly, as you can see here.