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A comment on the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

Could you elaborate on what the problem is? – Mario Menti, on October 02, 2008 09:32

Corbin replied on October 01, 2008 15:32 to the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

Mario, can you look at my feed and see if you can help?
http://www.williamsfortexas.com/artic...

Thanks.

A comment on the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

Thanks so much, Mario. It appears to be fixed. – paul@mnindy, on September 26, 2008 13:32

A comment on the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

Hi Paul, this was related to a problem with encodings at twitter's end, caused by some recent changes they did. It was fixed about 12 hours ago, as far as I can see - you can confirm it in your mnindy feed which contains so-called rich quotes which now render ok again, but for a while the entities themselves were printed. – Mario Menti, on September 26, 2008 10:21

A comment on the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

I'm seeing it in the web-based version (on both Safari and Firefox): http://twitter.com/mnindy/statuses/93... – paul@mnindy, on September 25, 2008 21:52

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jared replied on September 18, 2008 19:07 to the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

ah, you're right, it's right on the web but not in twitterific, where i saw it.

Mario Menti replied on September 18, 2008 17:41 to the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

For some reason getsatisfaction has lost a whole lot of this thread. There was a very long discussion, and in the end the upshot was that twitterfeed correctly posts entities like "& # 8 2 1 7 ;" (again, spaces are only there so the web browser doesn't turn it into a quote here), but that some clients don't render the entities correctly. This issue typically affected desktop clients like thwirl (not sure if that's fixed now), while the texts render correctly via the web.

jared replied on September 18, 2008 17:32 to the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

Disappointing that this was reported 7 months ago and still not corrected.

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A comment on the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

This is happening on both of my websites, I just discovered... the same symbols are garbled when twitterfeed pulls them:
http://www.comicmix.com/rss/
http://www.mindpollution.org/feed/atom/ – Rick Marshall, on April 24, 2008 16:53

Rick Marshall replied on April 24, 2008 15:38 to the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

I'm having the same problems with single quotes and ellipsis (...) I use these pretty frequently in my blog, so this is a bit disappointing. I just signed up for twitterfeed yesterday and the first few posts were all jumbled.

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Mario Menti replied on February 13, 2008 07:57 to the problem "Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed" in twitterfeed:

Could you let me know the URL of your feed that contains examples of these and I'll look into it. I've done quite a lot of work around trying to make sure posts get encoded correctly (e.g. around double-byte issues), so it's a bit of a tricky area to make changes.
Yours is certainly a special case - special characters and quotes shouldn't (and usually don't) cause a problem, so it may be related to the original encoding of your feed. As I said, let me know the URL of the feed that shows these issues, and I'll see what I can do.

todmaffin reported a problem in twitterfeed on February 13, 2008 02:00:

Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed

My blog has this headline:

St. John's Morning Show Puts a Cap on Homelessness

...BUT...

TwitterFeed grabs it and spits it back out as:

St. John & # 8 2 1 7 ; s Morning Show Puts a Cap on Homelessness

(I had to put spaces in between so it would come out okay.)

Yuck. It happens to other characters as well, like the double-quote.

Can this be made a priority for fixing.