[Plugin: SexyBookmarks] Sharing broken by special characters?

Yes, we’ve been having trouble with the Twitter status message not being encoded properly for quite a while… No matter how I try to encode it, for some reason it doesn’t seem to want to work as it should.

I am still looking into how to fix it, but I don’t even have an estimated time of delivery since I have no idea why it’s not working as it should to begin with.

I’m not a programmer, but can’t you “simplify” the text, removing the special characters? For example:

Claro anuncia que cadastro para o lan?amento do iPhone 3GS come?ará amanh?

Would be posted to Twitter as:

Claro anuncia que cadastro para o lancamento do iPhone 3GS comecara amanha

That would be enough for me.

The problem is, Twitter is probaly the sharing link people will most use in my site. ?? I’ve already received 10+ reports of this bug since I installed the plugin, a few hours ago.

Thanks for your work.

Yes, I could probably strip it down and return plain text to Twitter… I’ll see if I can’t get this implemented either tonight or tomorrow… Depends on how much stuff I have to do today before I get home.

Cool, thanks a lot in advance! ??

While you’re working on the encoding issues with Twitter, here’s another example issue:

https://lisapace.com/2009/07/10/a-little-bit-of-lola-love/

The title of every post on this blog ends with three dots, which are urlencoded and sent to Twitter as a special character. I also have the problem with apostrophes (Running WPMU with Sexy Bookmarks 2.5.1).

I agree that a stripped-down-plain-text title for Twitter with encoded characters removed would be a good solution.

Thanks.