{"id":2128,"date":"2010-05-11T11:53:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T08:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2010-05-11T11:53:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T08:53:38","slug":"url-with-trailing-punctuation-in-email-a-half-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2010\/05\/11\/url-with-trailing-punctuation-in-email-a-half-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"URL with trailing punctuation in email: a half-solution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pasting URLs into email messages has always made me somewhat uneasy, when the URL is right at the end of a sentence or right before a closing parenthesis: how do I know that the receiver’s email application knows to tell the puctuation apart from the URL? For example, let me enclose a URL (http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa) here. Will the receiver’s browser take them to http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa)<\/a> instead of http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa<\/a> without the closing bracket?<\/p>\n

Sometimes I work around this by using extra whitespace between the last character of the URL and the closing bracket or other punctuation immediately following it like so: http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa .<\/p>\n

But that looks just stupid. Also, the punctuation turns into an orphan<\/a> all too easily.<\/p>\n

Well, I just realized that for some URLs there’s a trick I can use to work around the issue: instead of whitespace, use #. The hash in URLs is used as a fragment identifier<\/a>, and if there’s no corresponding identifier in the document you’re referring to, the fallback is to just go to the document top \u2014 which is where you wanted to point to, anyway: http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/#.<\/a><\/p>\n

There are cases where this still doesn’t work, or works unlike intended.<\/p>\n

If your URL already has a fragment identifier (https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Bracket#Parentheses_.28_.29<\/a>), it’ll fail to point to your intended target when you add another #identifier to it (https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Bracket#Parentheses_.28_.29#<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Also, at least in theory it’s possible that there’s an identifier made up of a single punctuation character \u2014 say, an id=\".\"<\/code> \u2014 in the document you’re referring to, and you don’t intend to point to that identifier but to document top. Using # just before said punctuation then makes your link point to the fragment rather than document top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pasting URLs into email messages has always made me somewhat uneasy, when the URL is right at the end of a sentence or right before a closing parenthesis: how do I know that the receiver’s email application knows to tell the puctuation apart from the URL? For example, let me enclose a URL (http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa) here. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}