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//Objective:// Various text processing software will automatically create a link if an URL is encountered in user text. Office programs, mail clients, blog and chat and messengers are doing that. * If a URL is followed by a dot, and perhaps whitespace, the dot will not be included into the generated link target. It will be interpreted to terminate the sentence, and the link is broken. * Wiki servers behave in this way e.g. for ##,.;?## since 2001. * Phabricator will do the same, as see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_etc. * enwiki has a smart mechanism to ask now for //Did you mean//. **Proposal:** If the last character of any URL would be a dot U+002E, this one should be represented in address bar by ##%2E## encoding. * If a user will copy that URL and inserts anywhere, it works. * Try that one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_etc%2E We are already doing the same for ##?## as by https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Up,_Doc%3F but for query part escaping in URL. * It might be found that comma and semicolon are affected as well, but the number of wiki page names is rather limited.

//Objective:// Various text processing software will automatically create a link if an URL is encountered in user text. Office programs, mail clients, blog and chat and messengers are doing that. * If a URL is followed by a dot, and perhaps whitespace, the dot will not be included into the generated link target. It will be interpreted to terminate the sentence, and the link is broken. * Wiki servers behave in this way e.g. for ##,.;?## since 2001. * Phabricator will do the same, as see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_etc. * enwiki has a smart mechanism to ask now for //Did you mean//. **Proposal:** If the last character of any URL would be a dot U+002E, this should be followed in address bar by ##_## and represented in any generated ##<a>## link by ##%2E## encoding. * If a user will copy that URL and inserts anywhere, it works. * Try that one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_etc%2E We are already doing the same for ##?## as by https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Up,_Doc%3F but for query part escaping in URL. * It might be found that comma and semicolon are affected as well, but the number of wiki page names is rather limited.

//Objective:// Various text processing software will automatically create a link if an URL is encountered in user text. Office programs, mail clients, blog and chat and messengers are doing that. * If a URL is followed by a dot, and perhaps whitespace, the dot will not be included into the generated link target. It will be interpreted to terminate the sentence, and the link is broken. * Wiki servers behave in this way e.g. for ##,.;?## since 2001. * Phabricator will do the same, as see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_etc. * enwiki has a smart mechanism to ask now for //Did you mean//. **Proposal:** If the last character of any URL would be a dot U+002E, this one should beshould be followed in address bar by ##_## and represented in address barny generated ##<a>## link by ##%2E## encoding. * If a user will copy that URL and inserts anywhere, it works. * Try that one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_etc%2E We are already doing the same for ##?## as by https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Up,_Doc%3F but for query part escaping in URL. * It might be found that comma and semicolon are affected as well, but the number of wiki page names is rather limited.