Pasting hyperlinks with spaces into Skype for business

My company uses Skype for Business (predominately on Windows 7 machines) as our primary internal instant messaging tool, and I have a problem pasting network share locations (files and folders) when the path contains 2 separate directories with a space. For example, if I try to paste

\\server\share\folder\folder with space\another folder with space\folder\

Skype automatically tries to create a clickable link but auto-formats it to

<\\server\share\folder\folder with space\another> folder with space\folder\

which essentially breaks the link because it is now pointing too a directory that doesn't exist or the wrong directory.

Interestingly enough, it manages to handle the space in the higher level directory, but not the lower level one. And if I paste with only 1 directory with a space, it works

\\server\share\folder\folder with space\folder\

is formatted correctly as a clickable link

<\\server\share\folder\folder with space\folder\>

I've tried pasted as unformatted text and preadding the < and > to create the hyperlink as pasted, wrapping link string in quotes, but nothing works since Skype autoformats the text as soon as it is pasted.

Other than removing the spaces from the directories (which often isn't possible since I don't own them), is there a reliable and simple way to paste links into Skype for Business and have it autoformat correctly?