From 8df80afa79ce6768d295051c4962e6b8fb629652 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:54:47 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] URL detection: Allow trailing asterisks in URLs

Fixes #9543
---
 docs/changelog.rst    | 2 ++
 kitty/unicode-data.h  | 4 +++-
 kitty_tests/screen.py | 1 +
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index ad295169c..f4bac8049 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/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]
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/kitty/unicode-data.h b/kitty/unicode-data.h
index ac6f9eff3..fcbdf9587 100644
--- a/kitty/unicode-data.h
+++ b/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
diff --git a/kitty_tests/screen.py b/kitty_tests/screen.py
index 0783047be..556268057 100644
--- a/kitty_tests/screen.py
+++ b/kitty_tests/screen.py
@@ -1711,3 +1711,4 @@ def detect_url(self, scale=1):
     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_*_*_*_*')