On 29/03/2010 10:52, Gregory wrote: > I understand avoiding the ending character from being > non-alphanumeric(not letters or numbers) would mean a serious rewrite of > how the shortlinks are made/decoded. How much longer would short links > be if all digits were alphanumeric only?
It's also allowed behaviour. '-' is a valid URI character, so any user agent that chops them off the end of a URI is broken. I realise that doesn't help the people using them, but it would be better to fix the problem in the correct place. Having said that, it looks like geohashes use [a-z0-9] which would avoid these problems. -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev