# Some characters after URL mean topic link doesn't work

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-characters-after-url-mean-topic-link-doesnt-work/402371
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 7, 2026, 8:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-characters-after-url-mean-topic-link-doesnt-work/402371 "2026-05-07T08:25:12Z")
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### Author: ![Jonathan5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jonathan5/32/197134_2.png) [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2026, 7:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-characters-after-url-mean-topic-link-doesnt-work/402371/12 "2026-05-07T19:03:02Z")

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Thanks all. Looks as though this is a Markdown thing rather than just Discourse, and there are two potential solutions when a sentence within brackets ends with a URL:

1. Surround the URL with angle brackets, though this doesn’t display the URL as the topic title, and the link won’t work when quoted.

2. Just skip the full stop. This is what I’d done before asking here.

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