special characters in tags

[Simon Poole]

The API enforces

- no duplicate keys

- max key length (255 characters)

everything else is convention which is traditionally enforced by the 
editors and qa tools and that is exactly what is happening here, a 
broken tagging scheme is meeting reality.

Am 23.06.2022 um 22:12 schrieb Maarten Deen:
> The API documentation should describe the allowed characters to use, and it does: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6#Tags
> "A tag is a Key-Value pair of Unicode strings of up to 255 full unicode characters (not bytes) each."
>
> No exemption of characters is made so that would imply that a "+" is allowed.
> Having the JOSM validator flag them could be problematic in a way that people could take that as the rule and start removing all those characters just because JOSM says so.
>
> Regards,
> Maarten
>
>> Op 23-06-2022 19:12 schreef Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
>>
>>   
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> in the German forum the question arose whether the “+” is an allowed char in tags:
>>
>> https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=865766#p865766
>>
>> Maybe the validator is overzealous here, or is generally agreed that some characters should not be used?
>>
>> Cheers Martin
>>
>>
>>
>> sent from a phone
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