A closing parenthesis followed by a space seems like a pretty safe bet too. I'm sure those rules have been worked out long ago - the RFC was published in '94.
> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:55:14 -0800 > Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: URLification > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > You can get pretty sophisticated and have lots of heuristics to guess > what the user actually meant. For example, a period followed by a > space and a word that starts with uppercase almost certainly means > that the period was the end of a sentence and not part of the url. > Twitter probably should do this, as it's quite conservative. > > Diego > > On Dec 17, 11:10 am, Ken Dobruskin <[email protected]> wrote: > > True, but Yahoo! Mail and others do get it right. > > It's been a few years I no longer worry sending an email with a URL at the > > end of a sentence. I wonder how they do it. > > > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:48:31 -0800 > > > Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: URLification > > > From: [email protected] > > > To: [email protected] > > > > > Periods and parentheses are valid url characters. Assuming that an > > > adjacent period or closing parenthesis is not part of the url is a > > > gamble. The most sensible urlification includes all valid characters > > > until it finds one that clearly delimits the url such as a space. > > > > >http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt > > > > > On Dec 17, 7:13 am, Ken Dobruskin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > When adding a URL surrounded by parentheses or followed by a period, > > > > these marks are included in the resulting link. Is a trailing > > > > whitespace the only workaround? It's ugly and wastes a character. > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > Windows Live Hotmail: Your friends can get your Facebook updates, right > > > > from > > > > Hotmail®.http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-act... > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Windows Live: Friends get your Flickr, Yelp, and Digg updates when they > > e-mail > > you.http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-act... _________________________________________________________________ Keep your friends updated—even when you’re not signed in. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_5:092010
