https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358049
--- Comment #4 from kdex <k...@kdex.de> --- I don't see a clear benefit from teaching people to misunderstand URLs. Suggesting that they might not end in a dot will naturally break lots of valid URLs, and the same goes for question marks (and potentially other tokens that I haven't checked). Also, expecting that users will put punctuation symbols after their URLs to end a sentence is a constructed heuristic; the majority of my sent and received mails actually contain footnotes such as "[1]", which will be completed with their URLs at the bottom of the mail, line by line. This format is also very wide-spread and suffers from KMail's heuristic. Next, observe that this is not just about usernames that might end in punctuation. See [1] to agree that a dot at the end of a domain is, too, valid syntax and should be parsed to reflect that. In the case of usernames or other dynamic parts in a URL, KMail *will* break websites (like [2], which allows trailing dots in usernames and thus, in their profile page URLs). [1] https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/73934/how-can-urls-have-a-dot-at-the-end-e-g-www-bla-de/73937 [2] https://www.npmjs.com -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
