Make percent‐decoding awk script portable

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@@ -175,9 +175,10 @@ The following additional variables can be used to control the behaviour
 
 - **`FINDRULES`:**
   Rules to use with `find` when searching for source files.
-  The default ignores files that start with a period or hyphen‐minus
-    and those which contain a hash, buck, percent, asterisk, colon,
-    semi, eroteme, bracket, backslash, or pipe.
+  The default ignores files that start with a period or hyphen‐minus,
+    those which end with a cloparen, and those which contain a hash,
+    buck, percent, asterisk, colon, semi, eroteme, bracket, backslash,
+    or pipe.
 
 - **`EXTRAFINDRULES`:**
   The value of this variable is appended to `FINDRULES` by default, to
@@ -244,9 +245,12 @@ Source files whose media type does not have an associated X·S·L·T
   contain Ascii white·space, colons (`:`), semis (`;`), pipes (`|`),
   bucks (`$`), percents (`%`), hashes (`#`), asterisks (`*`), brackets
   (`[` or `]`), erotemes (`?`), backslashes (`\`), or control
-  characters, and must not begin with a hyphen‐minus (`-`).**
+  characters, must not begin with a hyphen‐minus (`-`), and must not
+  end with a cloparen (`)`).**
 The former characters have the potential to conflict with make syntax,
-  and a leading hyphen‐minus is confusable for a command‐line argument.
+  a leading hyphen‐minus is confusable for a command‐line argument, and
+  a trailing cloparen [activates a bug in G·N·U Make
+  3.81](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17148468/capturing-filenames-including-parentheses-with-gnu-makes-wildcard-function#comment24825307_17148894).
 
 ## Parsers