[OSM-talk] Several map features at the same place

[Richard Fairhurst]

Steve Coast wrote:

> On 26 Sep 2007, at 18:54, Tom Hughes wrote:
>
>> Oh no they're not. SteveC has been known to claim that they are (and
>> maybe in the pre-rails code they were) but in the current code I can
>> assure you that no such escaping happens.
>
> no - I thought I used those as the seperators precisely so people
> could use single ; and = chars
>
> But apparently not.

Blimey. I stand corrected.

Before the Rails port, ; in keys and values was certainly escaped as  
;;;, and = as ===. (The separators were single ; and =.)

Potlatch still escapes them that way. I can confidently say this is  
the only known instance of Potlatch being better behaved than the  
"real" API. ;)

cheers
Richard