<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 March 2010 15:15, Matt Amos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zerebubuth@gmail.com">zerebubuth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<a href="http://trac.openstreetmap.org/changeset/16271" target="_blank">http://trac.openstreetmap.org/changeset/16271</a><br>
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yeah, it was originally =, but changed to - to work with twitter.<br>
given that the characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, _, @, - and = have already<br>
been used, what's the next best character? ~? +?<br></blockquote></div><div>Well I suggested that you remove problematic symbols, and just use A-Z, a-z, 0-9 if need be.</div><div><br></div><div>Hmm, sorry Matt I see you only sent to Dev so might have missed the discussion on Talk-GB.</div>
<div>It was said (if we have powers over Google, Microsoft, and other big e-mail applications) we tell them to change...</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); ">It's also allowed behaviour. '-' is a valid URI character, so any user</span></div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); ">agent that chops them off the end of a URI is broken. I realise that<br>
doesn't help the people using them, but it would be better to fix the<br>problem in the correct place.</span><div><br></div><div>Robert Scott referenced <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">RFC4648 base32 and said we could change it to = perhaps (changing it back and breaking twitter again!).</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Steve Doerr wondered if replacing it with %2D would solve it. I'm not sure at what point it would be best to do this (in the link or manually).</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">It sounds like there will always be problems so I'm probably going to step out of the discussion.</span></div>
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