Posterous API, new post with special characters in title

Question

I'm writing a script to drag all of my images from TwitPic to Posterous but I'm having problems with the some of the characters in the title, here's an example:

"My awesome title --> some more text"

So when I run the title through urlencode() it appears on the Posterous site as My awesome title --> some more text, if I don't run it through the urlencode() anything after the > is stripped, as you'd expect.

I've also tried to use htmlspecialchars() and similar with little success, if I email or use the web interface to enter a post any special characters are displayed properly.

I just want my title to match that of the TwitPic image title... but I cannot seem to get it to work.

Cheers, Ben

You might want to direct help@posterous.com at this question as they are more likely to know the answer. — Treffynnon, Apr 20 '11 at 09:51
I'll try that, wasn't sure if I wasn't understanding character encoding properly... must learn more about it. — Ben Everard, Apr 20 '11 at 09:56

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 20 '11 at 10:58

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Oh my god... hangs head in shame...

The content returned from the TwitPic API already hasd the HTML chars as > etc... ran the title through html_entitiy_decode() and it worked perfectly.

Oh well, nobody died I guess.

answered Apr 20 '11 at 10:58

Ben Everard

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