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#617 closed defect (fixed)
Twitter support sends HTML entities and counts them incorrectly
| Reported by: | Owned by: | geert | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Version: | 1.2.7 | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| IRC client+version: | Client-independent | Operating System: | Public server |
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Description
Since http://code.bitlbee.org/lh/bitlbee/revision/564 and thus in 1.2.7, BitlBee sends HTML entities, but the counter introduced in http://code.bitlbee.org/lh/bitlbee/revision/570 counts every single character of the entity.
I don't know what's best practice, BitlBee should either:
- count HTML entities as single characters (should work with Twitter) or
- not send HTML entites, since they are optional according to http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Things-Every-Developer-Should-Know#7Encodingaffectsstatuscharactercount
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Change History (3)
comment:1 Changed at 2010-05-19T20:05:12Z by
comment:2 Changed at 2010-05-22T15:23:32Z by
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
I think this is fixed already. I successfully managed to tweet a message with fifty angle brackets, which means they get counted as one character, not four.
comment:3 Changed at 2010-05-22T15:59:04Z by
I can confirm it's fixed with http://code.bitlbee.org/lh/bitlbee/revision/583
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changeset:devel,583 fixes this at least partially.
Counting HTML entities as a single character doesn't (always) seem to work so that's not the way to go. :-(
A full solution would probably to count <> as 4 chars.