[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #20383: Strip trailing punctuation with canonical URLs

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#20383: Strip trailing punctuation with canonical URLs
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 Reporter:  nacin         |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Canonical     |    Version:
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
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 A follow-up to #7537 where we removed %20 and " " from the end of URLs, we
 should try to remove all sorts of punctuation from the end of a URL, both
 URL-encoded and decoded.

 Example bad URLs we should surely be able to resolve:

 http://ma.tt/2012/03/productivity-per-square-inch/%7B

 http://ma.tt/2012/03/productivity-per-square-inch/)

 http://ma.tt/2012/03/productivity-per-square-inch/,

 http://ma.tt/2012/03/productivity-per-square-inch/!

 More difficult when there is no trailing slash in the permalink structure
 (or the link requested, regardless of permalink structure), but if
 is_404() is taken into account, it should be doable to trail various
 pieces of punctuation and see if we can get things to resolve.

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