{"id":12733,"date":"2012-12-26T12:16:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T17:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/?p=12733"},"modified":"2012-12-26T12:16:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T17:16:32","slug":"tip-using-special-characters-in-your-tweets-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mobileservices\/2012\/tip-using-special-characters-in-your-tweets-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip: Using special characters in your Tweets &#038; Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\u00a0\u2661 New York. Or want to attract<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u261e attention\u00a0\u261c.<\/p>\n<p>But to avoid your tweets being received like this:<\/p>\n<p><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\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12737\" title=\"NotUsingUnicode\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-content\/uploads\/NotUsingUnicode2-400x161.png\" alt=\"Screen shot of tweet with special characters improperly rendered as boxes\" width=\"400\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><\/p>\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<p>On your iOS device (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch), the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uniconsoleapp.com\">Uniconsole App<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0App allows you to easily copy and paste <strong>Unicode characters<\/strong> into your tweets and emails:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/2012\/tip-using-special-characters-in-your-tweets-email\/uniconsoleapp\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12736\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12736\" title=\"UniconsoleApp\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-content\/uploads\/UniconsoleApp-400x347.png\" alt=\"Screenshot showing Uniconsole App inserting special characters\" width=\"400\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More tips<\/strong>:\u00a0<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. 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