Thanks for your bug report. This is by design and has been discussed before. The hotlink event extracts words from a line of text that that might use many different text formats and combinations of quotes, brackets, and so on, and these might enclose many different types of words. There is no way for the hotlink event to know exactly what type of word you are looking for or how far to strip certain combinations of enclosing characters, so it performs a generic extraction that works in most situations.