diaspora/diaspora — Issue #2201: Some URLs are not recognized and converted into a link
Author: pixelistik
Created: 2011-10-17 15:17:36+00:00
State: open

[Internationalized domain names](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name) (IDN) seem to break the recognition of link URLs. [See my example](https://diasp.de/posts/17236).

http://news.google.de/
is recognized, while

http://ööh.idn.swznet.de/
is not.

While IDNs can sometimes cause headaches, this case with a http protocol prefix should be recognized.

Possibly useful resource: [Daring Fireball: An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs](http://daringfireball.net/2010/07/improved_regex_for_matching_urls)