Just an apology for not getting back on this, I haven't managed to text
this properly yet (apologies) but I am pretty sure it will fix my use case,
for which I'm grateful. Thanks Nicolas.

On Sun., Dec. 22, 2019, 9:09 a.m. Nicolas Goaziou, <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Matt Price reported an issue[1] with new link syntax in Org 9.3. As
> a consequence, I had to modify it slightly.
>
> Backslash-escaping was required for some closing bracket characters.
> Now, /every square bracket/ within the URI part of a bracket link must
> be escaped.
>
> I updated the manual and the ORG-NEWS file accordingly. Please let me
> know if there's something suspicious.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
> Regards,
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  <
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2019-12/msg00312.html>
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>
>