Twitter Share Text= - How to add ' sign?

ABCDFav4 · 2015-06-20T21:48:29.804Z

Hiya Everyone,

I’m having problems adding a ’ sign to my twitter share text for my button, when I add the ’ symbol, the pop-up no longer works.

Best Regards,
Tim

niall · 2015-06-21T01:23:26.100Z

Apply URL encoding to your passed parameters.

jane's puppy

becomes

jane%27s%20puppy

ABCDFav4 · 2015-06-21T05:10:42.591Z

Thank you! Do I need to replace all spacing with %20?

niall · 2015-06-21T07:06:18.384Z

Yes, you should percent encode the space.

en.wikipedia.org

Percent-encoding

Percent-encoding, also known as URL encoding, is a method to encode arbitrary data in a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) using only the limited US-ASCII characters legal within a URI. Although it is known as URL encoding, it is also used more generally within the main Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) set, which includes both Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and Uniform Resource Name (URN). As such, it is also used in the preparation of data of the application/x-www-form-urlencoded media type, as ...

ABCDFav4 · 2015-06-21T12:15:47.526Z

Should this be the same with meta tags too?

niall · 2015-06-21T14:33:27.020Z

Convert the special entities in a HTML attribute such as quotes, apostrophes, ampersands, and greater than or less than signs using their HTML entity equivalent.

Helper in PHP:
http://php.net/htmlspecialchars

niall · 2015-07-02T04:10:27.660Z