URL detection: Allow trailing asterisks in URLs

Fixes #9543

docs/changelog.rst

@@ -238,6 +238,8 @@ Detailed list of changes
 - macOS: Workaround for yet another Tahoe bug causing rendering to fail
   (:pull:`9520`)
 
+- URL detection: Allow trailing asterisks in URLs (:iss:`9543`)
+
 
 0.45.0 [2025-12-24]
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

kitty/unicode-data.h

@@ -58,7 +58,9 @@ is_url_char(uint32_t ch) {
 static inline bool
 can_strip_from_end_of_url(uint32_t ch) {
     // remove trailing punctuation
-    return (char_props_for(ch).is_punctuation && ch != '/' && ch != '&' && ch != '-' && ch != ')' && ch != ']' && ch != '}');
+    return (char_props_for(ch).is_punctuation &&
+        ch != '/' && ch != '&' && ch != '-' && ch != ')' && ch != ']' && ch != '}' && ch != '*'
+    );
 }
 
 static inline bool

kitty_tests/screen.py

@@ -1711,3 +1711,4 @@ def t(url, x=0, y=0, before='', after='', expected=''):
     t('http://[::1]:8080/x', after='[')  # ]
     t('http://[::1]:8080/x]y34', expected='http://[::1]:8080/x')
     t('https://wraps-by-one-char.com[]/x', after='[')  # ]
+    t('https://t.me/#1_*_*_*_*')