On 10.01.2016 22:29, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: > Actually to my human eyes, both semicolons and suffixes are equally > ugly (but pragmatic). It's for processing that suffixes are supperior: > * Spliting by semicolons (no regexp needed :p) is easy but naive, > because semicolons are sometimes part of the actual value. > * One workaround is to use some kind of escape character, but this is > an impementation/spec minefield that we'll never get right. > * Another is to maintain a whitelist of tags that can be split by > semicolon, but it's extra work and everybody'll have a different list.
actually, I just found that we have a solution for this in Wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Semi-colon_value_separator#Escaping_with_.27.3B.3B.27 It might not be used by that much developers, but they can find it in Wiki if they want to care for their data
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