A URL may not display correctly when it contains characters such as underscores (_) or carets (+^). This problem occurs because the markup parser interprets parts of the URL (i.e., the link target) as valid text formatting markup. Most lightweight markup languages have this issue because they don’t use a grammar-based parser. Asciidoctor plans to handle URLs more carefully in the future (see issue #281), which may be solved by moving to a grammar-based parser (see issue #61). Thankfully, there are many ways to include URLs of arbitrary complexity using the AsciiDoc passthrough mechanisms.