[Psi-devel] bug: closing ) in URL not recognised

[Justin Karneges]

On Thursday 29 June 2006 07:07, Yves Goergen wrote:
> On 29.06.2006 05:08 CE(S)T, Cliff Dugal wrote:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography)
> >
> > gets linked as
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography
> >
> > in chats
>
> I don't believe there can ever be a totally correct URL detection from
> plaintext. You can say you only accept a space as the end of a URL, but
> this causes a lot of misdetections. Adding . / " and others to the list,
> makes it better. If I write (www.google.de) it probably won't include
> the ( ) in the link in this e-mail, for good reason, in this case.

Indeed.  And my mail client (kmail) stops before the underscore in the 
wikipedia links.

You're right, it cannot ever be perfect, but it is a shame that the wikipedia 
links don't work.  Maybe we could change it so that if there is an open 
parenthesis within the URL (or if you want to get really hacky, one that is 
touching an underscore), then a closing one will be accepted as part of the 
URL.

-Justin