I'm trying to figure out how to properly process Tweet data from the search API. I'm retrieving data in the JSON format, and each Tweet has a "text" property. I'd assumed we would treat the content as text. However, I'm seeing multiple instances of entities such as " and & in the JSON. So now I'm unsure how to proceed.
Is there a bug in the search API where characters in JSON strings are being encoded as XML? Is there a bug in some popular Twitter clients where content is sent improperly encoded? Or am I supposed to expect those entities? If I'm supposed to expect those entities, are they HTML or XML? What else should I expect (aside from the markup convention, like those @username tags)? Am I also supposed to process angle brackets since those are being encoded? Obviously, I don't want to just blindly insert any Tweet text as HTML. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
