id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
10393	LRM character on URLS	jgpacker	team	"If possible, JOSM should automatically remove the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-to-right_mark LRM character] (an ''invisible'' unicode character used in some languages) from certain keys.

This character can be accidentally introduced by mappers that copy and paste information from other sources.

Usually this character is no big deal, but it can be nasty in tags like `website=*` , `contact:website=*` and similar ones, because it can ''corrupt'' their address.
Examples of such tags can be seen [http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/3eJ here].
Note that recently I removed this character from URLs across the globe (around 1200), and yet it is growing again (around 60 right now).
Fortunately it seems this character only appears in the end (and maybe at the beginning) of an URL.

I opened a similar issue for the iD editor: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2323

Alternatively, this job could be delegated to JOSM Validator"	enhancement	closed	normal	14.09	Core validator		fixed	unicode lrm character url email