diff --git a/src/main/java/de/gultsch/common/Patterns.java b/src/main/java/de/gultsch/common/Patterns.java
index 36245b4d8aa80bb4f50af79a8d2676eac3532859..c55ee010868aeff31e8e92756e89664d46393bbb 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/gultsch/common/Patterns.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/gultsch/common/Patterns.java
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ public class Patterns {
 
     public static final Pattern URI_GENERIC =
             Pattern.compile(
-                    "(?<=^|\\p{Z}|\\s|\\p{P})(tel|xmpp|http|https|geo|mailto|web\\+ap|gemini):[\\p{L}\\p{M}\\p{N}\\-._~:/?#\\[\\]@!$&'*+,;=%]+(\\([\\p{L}\\p{M}\\p{N}\\-._~:/?#\\[\\]@!$&'*+,;=%]+\\))*[\\p{L}\\p{M}\\p{N}\\-._~:/?#\\[\\]@!$&'*+,;=%]*");
+                    "(?<=^|\\p{Z}|\\s|\\p{P}|<)(tel|xmpp|http|https|geo|mailto|web\\+ap|gemini):[\\p{L}\\p{M}\\p{N}\\-._~:/?#\\[\\]@!$&'*+,;=%]+(\\([\\p{L}\\p{M}\\p{N}\\-._~:/?#\\[\\]@!$&'*+,;=%]+\\))*[\\p{L}\\p{M}\\p{N}\\-._~:/?#\\[\\]@!$&'*+,;=%]*");
 
     public static final Pattern URI_TEL =
             Pattern.compile("^tel:\\+?(\\d{1,4}[-./()\\s]?)*\\d{1,4}(;.*)?$");