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[Neil Harris]

lcrocker at nupedia.com wrote:

>>I vote for punctuation cropping, too.
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>That seems to be a growing consensus.  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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I agree, but I'd also add semicolon and colon characters to that list.

Neil

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