With most (but not all) e-mail clients you can surround a url with angle brackets <> to get it to include the full url.
Shaun On 29 Mar 2010, at 23:15, Matt Amos 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? ~? +? > > cheers, > > matt > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Gregory <nomoregra...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Forwarding to dev as requested. >> I think it has been noticed already, it can also break in applications such >> as twitter. But is anything going to be changed? >> 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? >> Also the code is public so people can create these themselves or decode >> them, has anyone actually done that? >> On 29 March 2010 02:34, Tom Chance <t...@acrewoods.net> wrote: >>> >>> One for devs really but I'm not on the list. Perhaps someone could pass >>> this on? >>> >>> I've noticed that the osm.org shortlinks ending with a dash "-" often >>> don't work in emails. The dash gets missed off from the link. In my area, at >>> least, this seems to move the centre slightly and switch from zoom level 17 >>> to 18. >>> >>> For example this: >>> http://osm.org/go/euut_VcMR- >>> >>> Gets interpreted as this: >>> http://osm.org/go/euut_VcMR >>> >>> Is there any chance the shortlinks could avoid ending in a punctuation >>> mark? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Tom >>> >>> -- >>> http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-GB mailing list >>> talk...@openstreetmap.org >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Gregory >> o...@livingwithdragons.com >> http://www.livingwithdragons.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> dev@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
