Simon Ward <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:36:08PM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: >> That's actually error prone if someone enters a semicolon who doesn't >> know about the rule. I think that should better be reversed or '\;' >> be used as separator because this is much less likely to appear in >> regular data. > > Almost any character could appear in regular data, unless it’s quite a > special character—say, rather appropriately, the unit separator (US, > ASCII 0x1f). The problem then is entering the special character.
While this is true, a key sequence like '\;' or '\\' should rarely be seen in nature. At least it should be a lot less likely than a single ';'. To be on the safe side we can use '/|\|/|\|/|\' or similar. ;-) > > Ultimately the user should not have to care what, or if a, separator is > used, and they would be presented with multiple values as appropriate > for the interface they are using. This is true, but AFAIK no editor supports that, yet. Until then it needs to be done manually. Matthias _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
