URL Convert from Hyperlinks Panel

Question

hi all,
i guess this is an old one, but i cannot find it in the forums. In InDesign CS5.5 (7.5.2.318)/Windows the function convert URL to Hyperlinks at the Hyperlink Panel does not work as expected. URLs with HYPHEN-MINUS (U+002D) are splitted into two URLs, this is not a Soft-Hyphen.
There is no CS5 around for testing.
Simple test: Create an document with the following text:
www.test-me.de
The function will create two Hyperlinks
www.test
-me.de
I'm happily tagging URL with the GREP
(?<![@\-])\b(?:http://|https://|www\.)?(?:[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9._-]*\.)*[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9._-]+\.(?:[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z 0-9._-]*\.)*[a-zA-Z]{2,5}[^@]*?(?=(\. |,|;|:|\)|]| |"|'|$))
But this should be fixed!
Regards,
Gregor

Answer 1

Yes. This is a long-standing bug, and CS5.5 does not fix this...
Harbs