X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fjalview%2Fio%2Fgff%2FGff3Helper.java;h=e422ed470093ae852521dd685c5ccc5634e47cbe;hb=6200addf078b7f7ace90597dc056dafc7fc602c1;hp=28bcf4422d3258886dd72452644ca09492968ebe;hpb=4b1c969e87feaefd4fb9c49ba3d6b828b3ce1a9c;p=jalview.git

diff --git a/src/jalview/io/gff/Gff3Helper.java b/src/jalview/io/gff/Gff3Helper.java
index 28bcf44..e422ed4 100644
--- a/src/jalview/io/gff/Gff3Helper.java
+++ b/src/jalview/io/gff/Gff3Helper.java
@@ -350,15 +350,6 @@ public class Gff3Helper extends GffHelperBase
   }
 
   /**
-   * Return '=' as the name-value separator used in column 9 attributes.
-   */
-  @Override
-  protected char getNameValueSeparator()
-  {
-    return '=';
-  }
-
-  /**
    * Modifies the default SequenceFeature in order to set the Target sequence id
    * as the description
    */
@@ -424,6 +415,11 @@ public class Gff3Helper extends GffHelperBase
       desc = (String) sf.getValue(ID);
     }
 
+    /*
+     * and decode comma, equals, semi-colon as required by GFF3 spec
+     */
+    desc = StringUtils.urlDecode(desc, GFF_ENCODABLE);
+
     return desc;
   }
 }