[OSM-dev] Semicolon

[Brett Henderson]

Tom Hughes wrote:
> In message <47425B01.6000504 at bretth.com>
>         Brett Henderson <brett at bretth.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Can I get confirmation of how the escaping is supposed to work?  Is a 
>> ';' within a tag key or value represented as ";;;"?
>>     
>
> It isn't supposed to work any way at the moment.
>
> Richard thought escaping was done with the ;;;/=== scheme so put that
> in Potlatch but in fact nothing else was doing that. Plus it turns out
> to have edge cases that it can't cope with.
>
> I have a patch in my inbox to do escaping using a new scheme that will
> probably get put in fairly soon - it was on the list last week as part
> of this thread.
>
> Tom
>   
Oops, I missed that patch, must have skipped over the email.  I'll wait 
for that to go in then.

As for moving tags into their own table, sounds great but I'm not 
volunteering ;-)  I keep playing with pgsql in the background to attempt 
to fix that and referential integrity but I suspect I won't get anything 
working for some time yet.