Fix MarkdownV2 escaping causing Telegram 400 errors #73

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Adds missing MarkdownV2 reserved characters ([, ], {, }, ~, ) to the escape translation table in telegram.py send_message(). Reddit post/comment bodies commonly contain unescaped ](markdown links, YouTube share URLs like?is=...`), which triggered Telegram Bad Request 400: can't parse entities, falling back to the raw unformatted exception payload.

Adds missing MarkdownV2 reserved characters ([, ], {, }, ~, `) to the escape translation table in telegram.py send_message(). Reddit post/comment bodies commonly contain unescaped `]` (markdown links, YouTube share URLs like `?is=...`), which triggered Telegram Bad Request 400: can't parse entities, falling back to the raw unformatted exception payload.

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Escape remaining MarkdownV2 reserved characters in telegram messages

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Adds [, ], {, }, ~, and ` to the escape translation table used by
send_message(). Reddit post/comment bodies frequently contain
unescaped ']' (e.g. from markdown links or YouTube URLs), which was
causing Telegram's Bad Request 400 'can't parse entities' error and
falling back to the unformatted exception payload.