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                     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

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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