That sounds like a good idea. If I had a link that had its own punctuation in it already, I would try to avoid confusing the matter by putting any more punctuation around it.
kq
Lee wrote:
The remaining questions, then, are the exact details. Exactly which characters do we want to consider "punctuation", and under what circumstances? My suggestion is this: After parsing URLs the way it does now, if the URL ends with one, and exactly one, of the characters period, comma, question mark, or exclamation; then remove that character and assume it punctuates the sentence. Otherwise, leave the URL alone.
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