[twitter-dev] Re: illegal unicode character \uffff

2009-12-04 Thread braver
Mark, great to see you here! Now I trust the platform is in the right hands. :) Cheers, Alexy

[twitter-dev] Re: illegal unicode character \uffff

2009-12-03 Thread braver
On Dec 1, 10:49 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps someone from Platform could weigh in on this? In [vulgar] Russian, I'd say it seems Platform retracted its tongue into a [bodily cavity]. :) Platform, hey! :) Cheers, Alexy

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: illegal unicode character \uffff

2009-12-03 Thread Mark McBride
We are taking a look... hope to have an update soon On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:21 PM, braver delivera...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 1, 10:49 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps someone from Platform could weigh in on this? In [vulgar] Russian, I'd say it seems Platform retracted its

[twitter-dev] Re: illegal unicode character \uffff

2009-12-01 Thread braver
Gardenhose apparently returns illegal Unicode, as confirmed by PostgreSQL and Perl's Encode, a very trusted, high-mileage code. We surely can trap illegal Unicode errors but need to know whether you're aware of it, the rationale, and plan of action, if any. -- Alexy On Nov 21, 5:10 pm, braver

[twitter-dev] Re: illegal unicode character \uffff

2009-12-01 Thread John Kalucki
In this case, this isn't the Streaming API. That encoding is almost certainly what was presented to Twitter, probably exactly as encoded by the client. In this case, I'd complain to: http://mobileways.de/products/gravity/gravity/ If you request the Tweet via the REST API, you'll see the same

[twitter-dev] Re: illegal unicode character \uffff

2009-12-01 Thread braver
John -- thanks for clarification! Certainly it's the data in Twitter's database as a whole, not just the Streaming API. One question is whether you should accept illegal Unicode? Probably it's a safer thing to do to avoid scaring the clients, but maybe you'd want to apply some filter before

[twitter-dev] Re: illegal unicode character \uffff

2009-12-01 Thread John Kalucki
Perhaps someone from Platform could weigh in on this? -John On Dec 1, 7:41 pm, braver delivera...@gmail.com wrote: John -- thanks for clarification!  Certainly it's the data in Twitter's database as a whole, not just the Streaming API.  One question is whether you should accept illegal