Question

I need to update status and image to Twitter, by using the new API status/update_with_media, I can update status (in ASCII characters) with image to Twitter, but when the status contains Unicode characters, for example, the Chinese 通, its UTF-8 encode is %E9%80%9A, I encoded the string into UTF-8 just like plain update, and the POST body looks like that:

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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="status"

%E9%80%9A
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and the update success, but the Chinese 通 display as the original %E9%80%9A, how to make it displayed as the Chinese 通? Does it need to add more directives to denote the character set?

Answer 1

I got it:

Do NOT encode your Unicode into URL-encoded while using the API status/update_with_media, include those !@#$%^&*()-+\ and so on, just encode them in UTF-8, and past them as the original, Twitter can read and display them OK.