i need to tweet arabic urls without having the url full of % due to encoding

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Hi i'm trying to use the tweet widget on a arabic website the prob is tweeted urls looks %d%fd%.... how can i prevent the url from being encoded when shared?

Posted 15-Sep-12 8:18am

petra.elhashem

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Ed Nutting 15-Sep-12 14:58pm

Please see the Twitter Developers website and post in their forums.

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Sandeep Mewara · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-15T09:16:00

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For specific issues related to 3rd party, one should use their forum for probably a quick and more accurate response.
Kindly inquire about it in Twitter forum/developers: https://dev.twitter.com/[^]

Check with them if the tweet widget supports something like that or not. Currently, looks like they do not - they encode the characters.

Posted 15-Sep-12 9:16am

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petra.elhashem 15-Sep-12 15:23pm

but i've looked in their forums and many has asked the same question before but no solution was provided i always find my answers here when i fail to find to find them somewhere else anyway thank you

petra.elhashem 15-Sep-12 15:28pm

and usually i create a java script function for this but i loose in this case the rewrited url and i have to use the request url i wanted to see if there's a way to keep my url as it is

Sandeep Mewara 15-Sep-12 15:58pm

Put on your fiddler and see what request goes through. Is the application encoding it before sending it across? if so, I doubt there is much in your hand until some provision to allow other language to pass on as is.

petra.elhashem 15-Sep-12 16:21pm

thank you it was a good tip i used my old share twitter script but i decoded the url first it seems the application was getting the location.href from the browser that returns it to it encoded. now i decode the url then send it it works :)

petra.elhashem 15-Sep-12 16:29pm

but sadly twiter doesnt include anything arabic in the url :( it tweeted the link but when i went to twitter it considered the arabic part not in the link so i guess no way of tweeting arabic link