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Support hyperlinks encoded as terminal escape sequences #39

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@michael-plutoflume

Some terminals support clickable text via escape sequences. If we use the escape sequence

>>> import tabulate
>>>
>>> def encode_url(text: str, target:str):
...     return f"\u001b]8;;{target}\u001b\\{text}\u001b]8;;\u001b\\"
... 
>>> table = tabulate.tabulate([[encode_url("test", "http://example.org")]], headers=["test"], tablefmt="grid")
>>> print(table)
+--------+
| test   |
+========+
| test        |
+--------+

tabulate does not calculate the width correctly.

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