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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Tools for Twitter] Encoding issue(?) with Twitter Tools 3.0](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issue-with-twitter-tools-30/)
 *  Thread Starter [msittig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msittig/)
 * (@msittig)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issue-with-twitter-tools-30/#post-3120862)
 * OK I think I understood git enough to branch, commit and push the updates back
   to my branch. I’ve submitted a pull request to the original Twitter Tools. I’ll
   consider/mark this thread resolved now.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Tools for Twitter] Encoding issue(?) with Twitter Tools 3.0](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issue-with-twitter-tools-30/)
 *  Thread Starter [msittig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msittig/)
 * (@msittig)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issue-with-twitter-tools-30/#post-3120860)
 * Thank you ruanyf! You are the author of untco? I suspected strlen, but it would
   have taken me a long time to find mb_substr_replace.
 * I will now figure out how to push this back onto git and submit a pull request.
 * PS. This is for updating this Weibo with news from my school’s website:
    [http://weibo.com/u/2513119342](http://weibo.com/u/2513119342)
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Tools for Twitter] Encoding issue(?) with Twitter Tools 3.0](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issue-with-twitter-tools-30/)
 *  Thread Starter [msittig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msittig/)
 * (@msittig)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issue-with-twitter-tools-30/#post-3120834)
 * Looking through the code, I’m guessing it has something to do with the link_entities
   function in aktt_tweet.php. It seems to be populating an object (OO-code newb,
   can you tell?) using built-in functions like str_pad and strlen that may not 
   play nice with UTF-8-encoded strings, and the logic of link_entities may also
   make some assumptions about strings and bytes that may be true about ASCII but
   not about UTF-8.
 * That said, I’m pretty sure it’s strlen.
 * Now, to figure out what exactly link_entities is doing, to brush up on my PHP,
   and to learn how to use github…
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Tools for Twitter] Encoding issue(?) with Twitter Tools 3.0](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issue-with-twitter-tools-30/)
 *  Thread Starter [msittig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msittig/)
 * (@msittig)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issue-with-twitter-tools-30/#post-3120820)
 * Thanks! Checking first to make sure I didn’t miss anything obvious.
 * Not sure I have the time or PHP know-how to patch this, but will poke around 
   a bit.

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