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That's really a problem of picking up a url/uri/iri in text without delimeters. You see the same thing when there's 'uncommon' ascii characters in urls, like a trailing period, or commas or exclamation points. The proper thing to do is to enclose links in <>, as was done in well-formed email, but that wasn't super consistent either, and it hasn't transitioned to the world conciousness.



I don’t want to rely on users figuring out how to use delimiters. If the URIs with trailing periods break, so be it, people can use <>, but don’t make people use <> just because the URL isn’t English.




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