{"id":12733,"date":"2012-12-26T12:16:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T17:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/?p=12733"},"modified":"2026-03-04T10:37:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:37:04","slug":"tip-using-special-characters-in-your-tweets-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/2012\/tip-using-special-characters-in-your-tweets-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip: Using special characters in your Tweets &#038; Email"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Tip: Using special characters in your Tweets &#038; Email\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emoticon\">Emoticons<\/a> and other special characters are fun ways to enliven email and tweets. You may&nbsp;\u2661 New York. Or want to attract<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u261e attention&nbsp;\u261c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But to avoid your tweets being received like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/2012\/tip-using-special-characters-in-your-tweets-email\/notusingunicode-3\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12737\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/215\/NotUsingUnicode2-400x161.png\" alt=\"Screen shot of tweet with special characters improperly rendered as boxes\" class=\"wp-image-12737\" title=\"NotUsingUnicode\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026you need to ensure that you are using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unicode\">Unicode<\/a>, a cross-platform standard for encoding special characters and symbols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On your iOS device (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch), the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uniconsoleapp.com\">Uniconsole App<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;App allows you to easily copy and paste <strong>Unicode characters<\/strong> into your tweets and emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/2012\/tip-using-special-characters-in-your-tweets-email\/uniconsoleapp\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12736\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/215\/UniconsoleApp-400x347.png\" alt=\"Screenshot showing Uniconsole App inserting special characters\" class=\"wp-image-12736\" title=\"UniconsoleApp\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More tips<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/tips\/\">carleton.ca\/iteam\/tips<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emoticons and other special characters are fun ways to enliven email and tweets. You may&nbsp;\u2661 New York. Or want to attract \u261e attention&nbsp;\u261c. But to avoid your tweets being received like this: \u2026you need to ensure that you are using Unicode, a cross-platform standard for encoding special characters and symbols. On your iOS device (iPad, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12733"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14305,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733\/revisions\/14305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}