DB forge escaping related
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_driver.php
index 2e6589b..eb9a8f5 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_driver.php
@@ -43,19 +43,19 @@
 	public $dbdriver = 'sqlite3';
 
 	// The character used for escaping
-	public $_escape_char = '"';
+	protected $_escape_char = '"';
 
 	// clause and character used for LIKE escape sequences
-	public $_like_escape_str = ' ESCAPE \'%s\' ';
-	public $_like_escape_chr = '!';
+	protected $_like_escape_str = ' ESCAPE \'%s\' ';
+	protected $_like_escape_chr = '!';
 
 	/**
 	 * The syntax to count rows is slightly different across different
 	 * database engines, so this string appears in each driver and is
 	 * used for the count_all() and count_all_results() functions.
 	 */
-	public $_count_string = 'SELECT COUNT(*) AS ';
-	public $_random_keyword = ' RANDOM()';
+	protected $_count_string = 'SELECT COUNT(*) AS ';
+	protected $_random_keyword = ' RANDOM()';
 
 	/**
 	 * Non-persistent database connection
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	protected function _escape_identifiers($item)
+	public function _escape_identifiers($item)
 	{
 		if ($this->_escape_char == '')
 		{