From e49d310ea943916089b5381b00df20b1f9a9e52e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jermolene <jeremy@jermolene.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 11:37:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Relax external link matching to ignore illegal characters

Fixes #2501, and rolls back some of #2324
---
 core/modules/utils/utils.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core/modules/utils/utils.js b/core/modules/utils/utils.js
index 6b62eafd1..e322811d9 100644
--- a/core/modules/utils/utils.js
+++ b/core/modules/utils/utils.js
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ exports.escapeRegExp = function(s) {
 
 // Checks whether a link target is external, i.e. not a tiddler title
 exports.isLinkExternal = function(to) {
-	var externalRegExp = /^(?:file|http|https|mailto|ftp|irc|news|data|skype):[^\s<>{}\[\]`|"\\^]+(?:\/|\b)$/i;
+	var externalRegExp = /^(?:file|http|https|mailto|ftp|irc|news|data|skype):[^\s<>{}\[\]`|"\\^]+(?:\/|\b)/i;
 	return externalRegExp.test(to);
 };