ATTN Twitter: Tweet encoding problems in JSON requests
Hans Engel
A user of my client just brought up a problem with non-ASCII characters.
After a bit of diagnostics, it seems to be on Twitter's end.
Here is the resolved support topic:
http://getsatisfaction.com/twitkit/topics/quotes_display_in_twitkit_as_8220#reply_551728
Now, I know that the XML entities should come through like that - but
the problem is the JSON feed. I made a request for the tweet that he
made, and it returned the text with the _XML entity_.
However, I made a JSON request to show user 'turutosiya', a Japanese
user that I know - and it came through encoded correctly in JSON. I
tried doing it in XML next, and they were XML entities.
So, to summarize - for some reason, the left/right non-ASCII quotes
aren't encoded properly in the JSON.
Hopefully this can get resolved soon.
-Hans
Alex Payne
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list that would be most
helpful.
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Alex Payne
http://twitter.com/al3x
Hans Engel
Hans Engel
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=42
Attached the API responses as well - figured they might help.
Kee Hinckley
On Jul 30, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Hans Engel wrote:
>
> Here's the issue:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=42
>
> Attached the API responses as well - figured they might help.
I just added a comment to this, because I'm seeing a different problem
that may be related.
JSON is returning inconsistent encoding of HTML entities.
curl http://twitter.com/statuses/show/00000000000854144892.xml
returns
okay, since everyone is asking, it's just a copy & paste bit
using ascii characters █████ <-
copy & paste into appropriate place. lol
Whereas
curl http://twitter.com/statuses/show/00000000000854144892.json
returns
okay, since everyone is asking, it's just a copy & paste bit using
ascii characters \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 <- copy & paste
into appropriate place. lol
< is not expanded, but & has been expanded. That doesn't seem
correct.