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Unicode characters in YouTube trailer URLs
posted by djaceSTAFFMOD on October 5, 2014 at 9:22 AM
Strange unicode characters are being returned in trailer URLs by the API.
For example, movie 180951 returns a 'LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK' (U+200E) after the 's' character of the source "JulDCiXBx-s"
Other examples include movies 60305, 2714900, 1863201, 2795078 or 2184287.
This breaks some popular API bindings that don't expect Unicode in the trailer URL response.
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 5, 2014 at 10:29 AM
Hi djace,
Thanks for reporting this, I’ve created a new ticket for it.
180951 seems to be the only valid ID out of the ones you posted. If you have other examples just so I have more than one to go by, that would be helpful.
Thanks!
Reply by djace
on October 5, 2014 at 10:34 AM
Sorry, I rushed my post. The other IDs were iMDb IDs, not TMDB.
The TMDB ids are 25047, 169607, 194121, 174322 and 180951.