Index: core/string_api.php
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--- core/string_api.php	(revision 5752)
+++ core/string_api.php	(working copy)
@@ -411,13 +411,26 @@
 # --------------------
 # Detect href anchors in the string and replace them with URLs and email addresses
 function string_strip_hrefs( $p_string ) {
-
 	# First grab mailto: hrefs.  We don't care whether the URL is actually
 	# correct - just that it's inside an href attribute.
 	$p_string = preg_replace( '/<a\s[^\>]*href="mailto:([^\"]+)"[^\>]*>[^\<]*<\/a>/si', '\1', $p_string );
 
 	# Then grab any other href
 	$p_string = preg_replace( '/<a\s[^\>]*href="([^\"]+)"[^\>]*>[^\<]*<\/a>/si', '\1', $p_string );
+	//EC RH http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=7790
+	if(strstr($p_string, '(')){
+		if(strstr($p_string, '(http://')) {
+			$start = strpos($p_string, '(http://'); $tmp =  substr($p_string, $start, strlen($p_string));
+			$lnt = strpos($tmp, ' ');$stop = $start + $lnt; 
+			$tmp =  substr($p_string, $start, $lnt);
+			$h = strripos($tmp,'(');
+			if($h == 0){
+				$p_string = str_replace('(', '', $p_string);
+				$p_string = str_replace(')', '', $p_string);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	//EC RH
 	return $p_string;
 }