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+--- !ditz.rubyforge.org,2008-03-06/issue 
+title: need proper utf encoding
+desc: |-
+  twitter uses a weird utf-8 encoding that requires that each character in a
+  utf-8 character to be encoded. mitter does not do that.
+type: :bugfix
+component: twitter
+release: 1.0.0
+reporter: Julio Biason <julio.biason@gmail.com>
+status: :unstarted
+disposition: 
+creation_time: 2009-12-28 17:20:38.898152 Z
+references: []
+
+id: afb451fb509144d740c8a8a76bac1925c6f055db
+log_events: 
+- - 2009-12-28 17:20:53.746083 Z
+  - Julio Biason <julio.biason@gmail.com>
+  - created
+  - we need this to, at least, start using oAuth.