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extropalopakettle · No offense, but....

How does one post a working link to a url such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_case_(law) ?

Jack_Ian · Big Endian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_case_%28law%29

It's called URL-encoding, you can check out the following link for more info and values for what comes after the "5" sign.
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

extropalopakettle · No offense, but....

Should it not be automatic? (i.e. done by software, not by people)

Zag · Tired of his old title

The problem is that the code which picks out a URL tries to figure out what you mean, and it isn't always clear. More often than your case, someone will be writing something like

Go to my web site (It is http://www.zag.net).

We would like it NOT to include the parens in that case. Now the distinction between these two is pretty obvious to you, but it is tricky to get a silicon computer to do the incredible pattern matching that the one on your shoulders is so good at.

You can always use the URL command, which I am pretty sure works as you expect [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_case_(law)](Testing it here)[/url]

Edit: well, maybe not so much.