A Stupid Twitter UTF-8 Bug Fix Du Jour

[Yeah, this is late. So very late. No excuse really, other than a general lack of enthusiasm for posting to the blog (not to mention I missed this years Yearly LiveJournal Post [1]). Hopefully, this ennui has passed and regular service will resume.]

From: Tony Finch <XXXXXXXXXXXX>
To: sean@conman.org
Subject: Jef Poskanzer's Twitter tools
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:39:29 +0100
> I see from your comment on jwz's blog that you are also a fan of Jef's Twitter tools:…> http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/04/a-badge-for-the-software-industrys-failures/#comment-90304 [2]
I see from your blog that you also encountered the UTF-8 bug:…> http://boston.conman.org/2011/01/03 [3]
I found this bug in October but Jef didn't release a fix until a couple of weeks after your blog post in January. See the last couple of comments at:…> http://fanf.livejournal.com/108436.html [4]
Tony.

A one line patch and now my Stupid Twitter Project [5] is perfectly fine and I no longer have to worry about Twitter mishandling HTML (HyperText Markup Langauge) entities any more.

[1] http://spc476.livejournal.com/

[2] http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/04/a-badge-for-the-software-industrys-failures/#comment-90304

[3] http://boston.conman.org/2011/01/03

[4] http://fanf.livejournal.com/108436.html

[5] http://twitter.com/siwisdom

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