[OSM-dev] Semicolon

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Nov 13, 2007 9:32 AM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> In message <20071113024656.GA6626 at lochewe.mathy.remote.org>
>         Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>
> >    sorry if I'm too lazy to look it up in the source, I'm hoping that
> > someone in the know can tell me off of his head: What's the current
> > official line about semicolons in node tag values ("amenity=bank;atm")
> > - are they escaped when being inserted into the DB or aren't they? Are
> > editors supposed to disallow semicolons in node keys and node values?
>
> It is still broken (for nodes). Patches welcome.

Nuts, I recall someone saying they were going to try to fix that for
the 0.5 transition, so save another dump/restore...

Oh well, we can save it for the next time there's db maintainence.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/