in flowed text (e.g., emails) it's rather common for urls to be followed by a comma or full stop, sometimes a colon or semicolon. it's unhelpful when this punctuation is considered part of the url, as it typically invalidates it. therefore i think it would make sense to strip trailing characters with a clear punctuation function. (notably, colons are already treated specially.) somewhat related to bug 399291.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/utilities/konsole/-/merge_requests/934
Git commit 02ba8cefc763f841e523c77069860253599b2dc0 by Méven Car, on behalf of Wendi Gan. Committed on 22/07/2024 at 12:05. Pushed by meven into branch 'master'. url filter: remove trailing non-URL characters Adjusted UrlFilter::newHotSpot to strip non-URL trailing characters (e.g., commas, dots) using regex "[',.:;]+$". This ensures correct URL parsing without trailing punctuation. Test case: 'https://example.com.' should exclude the trailing dot. Related: bug 473285 M +16 -10 src/filterHotSpots/UrlFilter.cpp https://invent.kde.org/utilities/konsole/-/commit/02ba8cefc763f841e523c77069860253599b2dc0