Link with curved Bracket

I like to create a link to this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(Java)

This code:

[source,asciidoc]
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Check on this Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(Java)
----

The generated code looks like this:

[source,html]
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<p>Check on this Wikipedia page: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(Java" class="bare">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(Java</a>)</p>
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This is obviously wrong, because the closing bracket is part of the link.

An alternative can be to use percent-encoding of the URL:

[source,asciidoc]
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Using URL encoding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_%28Java%29
----

At least the link is correct:

[source,html]
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<p>Using URL encoding: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_%28Java%29" class="bare">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_%28Java%29</a></p>
----

But I would like the text to be decoded:

[source,html]
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<p>Using URL encoding: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_%28Java%29" class="bare">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(Java)</a></p>
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What do you think?
Should I file an enhancement request for that? Where?

By the way, reading the documentation, AsciiDoc Syntax Quick Reference > Links, section With spaces and special characters, I was guessing that it would work using ++:

[source,asciidoc]
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link:++http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(Java)++[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(Java)]
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But it doesn’t.
Doing some debugging, I saw that the link in square brackets is first converted.

[source,asciidoc]
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Wrong link with `+` escape: link:++http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(Java)++[http://some.other.site.com/]

Second wrong link without: link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(Java)[http://test.com/]
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Produces:

[source,html]
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<p>Wrong link with <code>+</code> escape: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(Java)"></a><a href="http://some.other.site.com/" class="bare">http://some.other.site.com/</a></p>

<p>Second wrong link without: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(Java)"></a><a href="http://test.com/" class="bare">http://test.com/</a></p>
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This is definitively a bug I can open if you tell me where.

The only way for me to have a working link with the text I want, is to use:

[source,asciidoc]
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link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_%28Java%29[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(Java)]
----

But this is very noisy.

PS: this forum is also wrong with link display. I have no clue how I can disable them

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