Strange characters in tweets

[mschilder]

Great piece of code. One thing however: sometimes strange characters appear in tweets. How can I prevent this from happening?

[lgladdy]

This will be twitter returning unicode. You can try and strip them out or convert them with PHP's unicode translation support (google php unicode to ascii) but in my experience that never works very well.

Your best bet is probably to set the page text type to unicode in a meta tag, that way the browser will render the unicode characters correctly.

[mschilder]

Thanks, Liam for your swift response. Thing is, the meta-tag is already set to the default for HTML5:

Op dinsdag 25 maart 2014, om 10:15 heeft Liam Gladdy het volgende geschreven:

This will be twitter returning unicode. You can try and strip them out or convert them with PHP's unicode translation support (google php unicode to ascii) but in my experience that never works very well.
Your best bet is probably to set the page text type to unicode in a meta tag, that way the browser will render the unicode characters correctly.

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