[UA-discuss] interesting UA issue discovered

[Chaals McCathie Nevile]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 08:11:45 +0100, Edmon <edmon at registry.asia> wrote:

> One of the tools (social media one) converted a domain we were posting  
> in brackets: (http://ymi.asia) into a link for "ymi.asia)" included the  
> close-bracket in the link... accidentally creating a dead link, we  
> suspect they tried to update their previous script to allow anything  
> after the dot until a space... should we look into any of our documents  
> to flag this?..

This is a *really* common problem in linkification tools in general.  
Wherever we talk about linkification we should flag it. Ultimately the  
solution is heuristic, but the saving of 2-10 seconds each time someone  
does this probably adds up to many lifetimes each year...

cheers

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