Forwarding to dev as requested.<div>I think it has been noticed already, it can also break in applications such as twitter. But is anything going to be changed?</div><div><br></div><div>I understand avoiding the ending character from being non-alphanumeric(not letters or numbers) would mean a serious rewrite of how the shortlinks are made/decoded. How much longer would short links be if all digits were alphanumeric only?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also the code is public so people can create these themselves or decode them, has anyone actually done that?</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 March 2010 02:34, Tom Chance <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@acrewoods.net">tom@acrewoods.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">One for devs really but I'm not on the list. Perhaps someone could pass this on?<br><br>I've noticed that the <a href="http://osm.org" target="_blank">osm.org</a> shortlinks ending with a dash "-" often don't work in emails. The dash gets missed off from the link. In my area, at least, this seems to move the centre slightly and switch
from zoom level 17 to 18.<br><br>For example this:<br><a href="http://osm.org/go/euut_VcMR-" target="_blank">http://osm.org/go/euut_VcMR-</a><br><br>Gets interpreted as this:<br><a href="http://osm.org/go/euut_VcMR" target="_blank">http://osm.org/go/euut_VcMR</a><br>
<br>Is there any chance the shortlinks could avoid ending in a punctuation mark?<br><br>Regards,<br>Tom<br clear="all"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br><a href="http://tom.acrewoods.net" target="_blank">http://tom.acrewoods.net</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/tom_chance" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/tom_chance</a><br>
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