[OSM-dev] [Talk-GB] OSM shortlinks problem

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 30 March 2010 00:15, Matt Amos <zerebubuth at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/changeset/16271
>
> yeah, it was originally =, but changed to - to work with twitter.
> given that the characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, _, @, - and = have already
> been used, what's the next best character? ~? +?

Taking gnome-terminal as example (that's where I normally connect to
IRC and want to click links posted there), it will not treat any
trailing special chars at the end of a URL as part of the URL.  This
leaves two possibilities:

 * move the last two digits to the beginning, - in the middle of the
url is fine.
 * replace - with /, which apparently is an exception and can appear at the end.

Cheers