Title: [Plugin: Live Blogging] Encoding issues
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Live Blogging] Encoding issues

 *  Resolved [Xalio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xalio/)
 * (@xalio)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-live-blogging-encoding-issues/)
 * Hi,
 * I just want to report that there are some encoding issues when LiveBlogging plugin
   is linked to twitter on these type of characters: ” ‘
 * Could you fix it please?
 * Thanks.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/live-blogging/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/live-blogging/)

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 *  [mattregister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattregister/)
 * (@mattregister)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-live-blogging-encoding-issues/#post-2782961)
 * I am having the same problem. I am getting the html character codes in twitter.
   It happens if I use the visual or html editor in wordpress. The live blog entries
   look great on the post, but break in twitter.
 * thanks in advance for any help in this. I need this badly for an event on friday…
 * Is there a way to change what is sent to twitter to plain text or something?
 *  [mattregister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattregister/)
 * (@mattregister)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-live-blogging-encoding-issues/#post-2782962)
 * Here are the examples.
 * Here is the blog post that looks great…
    [http://rrea.com/blog/nar-tech-edge-houston/](http://rrea.com/blog/nar-tech-edge-houston/)
 * Here is one of the entries as a tweet.
    [https://twitter.com/rreadotcom/status/215546466834452480](https://twitter.com/rreadotcom/status/215546466834452480)
 * Any thoughts?
 *  [Stanley_Krute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stanley_krute/)
 * (@stanley_krute)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-live-blogging-encoding-issues/#post-2782975)
 * I am seeing the same issues, by the way.
 *  Thread Starter [Xalio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xalio/)
 * (@xalio)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-live-blogging-encoding-issues/#post-2782991)
 * Is there an update for this issue?
 *  [mattregister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattregister/)
 * (@mattregister)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-live-blogging-encoding-issues/#post-2782992)
 * No update that I have found. Here is an example I made where I was just careful
   not to use contractions…
    [http://rrea.com/blog/nar-tech-edge-vegas/](http://rrea.com/blog/nar-tech-edge-vegas/)
 *  [vanamar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vanamar/)
 * (@vanamar)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-live-blogging-encoding-issues/#post-2783001)
 * On line 1354 of live-blogging.php
 * `$content = filter_var($post->post_content, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);`
 * Change to
    `$content = filter_var($post->post_content, FILTER_SANITIZE_URL);`
 * That will make quotes and other special characters appear correctly in tweets.
 *  [mattregister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattregister/)
 * (@mattregister)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-live-blogging-encoding-issues/#post-2783003)
 * [@vanamar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vanamar/) Brilliant! thank you.
   Works perfectly!
 *  Thread Starter [Xalio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xalio/)
 * (@xalio)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-live-blogging-encoding-issues/#post-2783004)
 * Thanks! Works fin too!
 *  [rfran1984](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rfran1984/)
 * (@rfran1984)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-live-blogging-encoding-issues/#post-2783007)
 * I’ve made that change, and it works, however when the tweets are produced, there
   are no spaces between words.
 * Example – [https://twitter.com/tvlive_extra/statuses/240465072932139009](https://twitter.com/tvlive_extra/statuses/240465072932139009)

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