Special characters break markdown link rendering

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Summary

Relative links with special characters in markdown are not rendered in gitlab ui. They work in the gitlab ide markdown preview though.

Steps to reproduce

1. Have a folder with special characters such as colon :
2. Create a relative link to it in a markdown file.

Example Project

https://gitlab.com/Yelinz/markdown-test/-/blob/main/folder:%201/important.md?plain=1

What is the current bug behavior?

Relative link to another file with colon does not get rendered.

What is the expected correct behavior?

Relative link to another file with colon does get rendered.

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Output of checks

This bug happens on GitLab.com