Hi Mateusz,

> On 08/12/2020 22:44, Robert Riebisch wrote:
>> We could probably only catch those by starting to wrap all URLs in <> at
>> the document source level manually.
> 
> Yes, that would be a very good compromise.

Not my own idea: <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-C>

"Using <> angle brackets around each URI is especially recommended as a
delimiting style for a reference that contains embedded whitespace."

>> But there may be side effects, when <> is used for other stuff too.
> 
> The linkification engine would not look at the <> alone - it would 
> rather try matching "<http[s]://.*>". This would be much better than the 

Don't forget ftp:, mailto:, gopher:, telnet:, news:, file:, ...
(<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator>)
What about scheme-less URLs, e.g., <www.freedos.org> or <ftp.gwdg.de>?

> current situation, and I do not think there would be any significant 
> side effects. But, in any case, this would require many corrections in 
> the help files.

And nobody wants to do the work...

We are not that many, but still *many*. It could be doable.

Cheers,
Robert
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