[Plugin: WPGPlus] Unicode appearing in G posts instead of symbol itself

  • Since I started using WPGplus (around when version 0.8 appeared, I believe), I’ve noticed that posts from WordPress get put into G+ with the unicode for a character inserted, instead of the character. So, for instance, instead of a colon (“:”) you see ““”

    Is this a “feature” of G+, or is there a way to get WP to format those characters before sending them to G+. Or . . . more pernicious . . . is this a feature of the way that I am writing my posts (using the web browser and the built-in dashboard and editor inside WP)?

    In other words . . . anyone else seeing this? ??

    Steve

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  • Plugin Author John Eckman

    (@johneckman)

    I’ve not seen it – but I’m certain I’ve not explored much of the range of punctuation in testing. ??

    If you look at lines 350-356 of gplus.php you’ll see I’m running the post text through wp_filter_nohtml_kses and stripslashes – maybe that’s too aggressive?

    Are you writing a message specific to google+ in the meta box, or is wpgplus using your post excerpt?

    Thread Starter stephensekula

    (@stephensekula)

    This business with unicode being published literally to G+ is not hard for me to initiate. If I Add a Post from the Dashboard for my blog, then just type something like:

    “abcd”

    and post it, the quotes get interpreted as "abcd"

    Perhaps it has to do with the way my posts are encoded behind the scenes in WordPress? Perhaps this is some WordPress setting regarding character encoding… I’ll see if there is an obvious setting in here…

    Steve

    Thread Starter stephensekula

    (@stephensekula)

    (Oh, in the above message, the support forum rendered my “ampersand quot semi-colon” as actual quotes . . . didn’t think about that before I posted it written in HTML code…

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