Shouldn't be a problem unless there is some Twitter bug. Twitter should handle everything utf-8 as long as within 140 char limit.
I tried the following without problems: [original url] http://twitter.com/home?status=Currently reading on Webgrrls:ü ü ü ü ü [encoded url] http://twitter.com/home?status=Currently+reading+on+Webgrrls%3a%c3%bc+%c3%bc+%c3%bc+%c3%bc+%c3%bc Leon ________________________________ From: sadullah keleş <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, October 20, 2009 2:10:14 AM Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: twitter encoding problem :) actually this is my first try on twitter i am not familiar with this either. using javascript's encoding functions did not work. probably in the end i will replace turkish characters with their similar characters in english :) On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:03 PM, leonspencer <[email protected]> wrote: >Thanks. I was unfamiliar with that mechanism. Cool. So that's how it >is done? > >Did you try encodeURIComponent() to the Turkish characters are handled >>correctly? > >Leon > >On Oct 20, 1:56 am, sadullah keleş <[email protected]> wrote: >> i have a "share on twitter" button , when user click this >> buttonhttp://twitter.com/ page will be open and the info that i send ("i am > >> reading this:http://www.mypage.com/article.aspx";) will be shown in the >> "What Are you Doing?" textbox and then user will click update button on >>> twitter page. >> >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:46 AM, leonspencer <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> >> > Thanks for the clarification. Are you updating your Twitter status to >> > read: >> >> > "i am reading this:http://www.mypage.com/article.aspx"; >>> >> > or are you just trying to display this information in a new browser >> > window without updating your Twitter status? >> >> > Thanks, >> > Leon >> >> > On Oct 20, 1:38 am, sadullah keleş <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > > hey leonspencer, >> > > thanks for your reply. dont think title part as page title, it is just a >> > > short explanation. what i am trying to do is like "i am reading this: >> >http://www.mypage.com/article.aspx";, i mean at the beginning of the status >>> > a >> > > short explanation and after that, link to the page, explanation part will >> > be >> > > taken from page title. this does not encounter any error, works properly >> > > except turkish characters :) >>> > > any other idea?
