[Bug]: Does not break hyperlinks based on URI-illegal special characters (like apostrophes)

[nekohayo]

Describe the bug

If you toot something that says something like extend https://foo_bar_baz's proposed UX to …, the 's will get included as part of the hyperlink, and the link will then be pointing to a broken location.

Presumably there might be other punctuation characters where word separation might be a problem, but I'm not sure what the best practices are vs what is allowed in URIs...

Steps To Reproduce

Write ', :, ;, (, ), ., etc. straight after a URL in a toot (I haven't tested all of those, just the ' apostrophe)?

Logs and/or Screenshots

No response

Instance Backend

Mastodon

Operating System

Fedora 39

Package

Flatpak

Troubleshooting information

os: GNOME 46 (Flatpak runtime)
prefix: /app
flatpak: true
version: 0.7.1 (production)
gtk: 4.14.1 (4.14.1)
libadwaita: 1.5.0 (1.5.0)
libsoup: 3.4.4 (3.4.4)
libgtksourceview: 5.12.0 (5.12.0)

Additional Context

To work around the problem, I had to edit the toot and put a space between the URL and the 's. I'm not sure if this is the only way for this to work, or if Mastodon and Tuba would be able to reliably delimit the hyperlinking based on detected punctuation...

[GeopJr]

Does mastodon web have a different behavior?

The way clients work is by sending the content as plain text to your instance, and your instance is responsible for everything else. From resolving mentions, emojis, hashtags to url parsing. Your instance then converts it to safe HTML.

The only thing Tuba could be at fault here is with url encoding characters 🤷 Give me a second to check on Mastodon's issue tracker

[GeopJr]

[GeopJr]

rel: mastodon/mastodon#555 mastodon/mastodon#6121

[GeopJr]

Doesn't look that there's anything I can do from my side and based on the last comment on mastodon/mastodon#6121, it seems intentional?

[nekohayo]

Ah damn, I wouldn't have thought ' and such would be valid URL characters... I guess there's no choice but to close this then, indeed 🫠