[Bug?]: Zero-width-space character creeping into terminal links, leading to 404 pages

[king8fisher]

What's not working?

terminal-link is still struggling with the old bug from 2022: sindresorhus/terminal-link#18
Some terminals, including Windows VSCode built-in are not recognized as supporting terminal links, as a result, a fallback version is printed instead with the link surrounded by ( ) and the link itself having invisible characters.

Similar issues/PRs:

• [Bug]: Compatibility Check Error Message with the wrong link (Page Not Found error) #8224
• fix(crwa): Prevent links including "zero width space" in URL #8226 - partial solution, not touching other links throughout the code, by providing a fallback function which is also a duplication of the same links.

Possible solutions:

• Switch away from terminal-link. I made a quick drop-in replacement, https://www.npmjs.com/package/termi-link that can be tried if desired.
• Provide fallbacks for every single usage of terminalLink.

How do we reproduce the bug?

Run a redwood upgrade script. For instance, after upgrading to Redwood 8.4.4, I'm getting the following link:

• ❖ GitHub Release notes (​https://github.com/redwoodjs/redwood/releases%E2%80%8B) (those characters are actually invisible in the terminal)

Clicking the link to the releases page in the error message takes me to a 404 page due to the URL being malformed, containing a %E2%80%8B character in the end (standing for a zero-width space Unicode character).

What's your environment? (If it applies)

System:
    OS: Windows 11 10.0.22631
  Binaries:
    Node: 22.11.0 - ~\AppData\Local\Temp\xfs-7a25e855\node.CMD
    Yarn: 4.4.0 - ~\AppData\Local\Temp\xfs-7a25e855\yarn.CMD
  Browsers:
    Edge: Chromium (127.0.2651.74)
  npmPackages:
    @redwoodjs/cli-storybook-vite: 8.4.4 => 8.4.4 
    @redwoodjs/core: 8.4.4 => 8.4.4 
    @redwoodjs/project-config: 8.4.4 => 8.4.4 
  redwood.toml:
    [web]
      title = "Redwood App"
      port = 8983
      apiUrl = "/.redwood/functions" # You can customize graphql and dbauth urls individually too: see https://redwoodjs.com/docs/app-configuration-redwood-toml#api-paths
      includeEnvironmentVariables = [
        # Add any ENV vars that should be available to the web side to this array
        # See https://redwoodjs.com/docs/environment-variables#web
      ]
    [api]
      port = 8982
    [browser]
      open = true
    [notifications]
      versionUpdates = ["latest"]

Are you interested in working on this?

• I'm interested in working on this