diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e1ba6da..1f1697e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   <groupId>gwtexpui</groupId>
   <artifactId>gwtexpui</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <version>1.2.3</version>
+  <version>1.2.4</version>
   <name>gwtexpui</name>
   <description>Extended UI tools for GWT</description>
   <url>http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/gwtexpui.git</url>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/gwtexpui/safehtml/client/SafeHtml.java b/src/main/java/com/google/gwtexpui/safehtml/client/SafeHtml.java
index 5878ec0..32d9a78 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/gwtexpui/safehtml/client/SafeHtml.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/gwtexpui/safehtml/client/SafeHtml.java
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
   /** Convert bare http:// and https:// URLs into &lt;a href&gt; tags. */
   public SafeHtml linkify() {
     final String part = "(?:" +
-		"[a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*',%;:@=?#/-]" +
+		"[a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*',%;:@=?#/-~]" +
 		"|&(?!lt;|gt;)" +
 		")";
     return replaceAll(