Show unicode characters in the tweet popup textbox instead of the encoded Hexadecimal representation

[jaideepvr]

Hi,

In my website I have a capability for my users to tweet by clicking a button, which opens the twitters popup. The message to tweet is dynamically generated by my web site and contains some unicode characters in the hexadecimal format like for $ it is $ For the Indian Rs symbol it is ₹. In the textbox it appears as the hexadecimal code and not teh actual symbol. In the above example they show $ or ₹.

Is there anyway to get the twitter popup to show the symbol in the text box.

Thanks

• Jaideep

[episod]

What’s the exact HTML you’re using to invoke the Tweet Button in this case?

[dCandra]

how can do it??

[jaideepvr]

We open a new window the following way

window.open(‘http://twitter.com/share?url=…&text=’ + encodeURIComponent(‘Message to tweet is …with the unicode character: ₹ …’), …)

[episod]

Are you literally passing a HTML entity in there? You should be passing the literal UTF-8 character (and properly percent-encoded for the URL context you’re presenting in). Tweets can be shown in many places beyond HTML, so passing an HTML entity doesn’t make sense really.

[niall]

[niall]