[OSM-talk] Invisible character LRM in some website values

Glenn Plas glenn at byte-consult.be
Tue Apr 29 08:16:49 UTC 2014


On 29-04-14 04:33, John Packer wrote:
> Today I found out a /funny/ thing.
> It seems some values for the keys 'website' and 'contact:website' have 
> a LRM character at it's end.
> That's not something good because it "corrupts" the URL. (example)
>
> On taginfo: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=website%3D%E2%80%8E
> Example of an overpass to find this: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/3bW
>
> I manually fixed these things on Brazil, could someone fix this on the 
> rest of the world?

I tried fixing some in Josm, and I can confirm the LRM char is in the 
URL, but to make josm realise that there was a change I had to had a 
note tag, josm doesn't account for those special chars to determine 
changes and allow an upload.

Glenn
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