#4 Daily issues in android- Twitter asterisk issue in a status update

Issue:

Just make API request via StatusService#update with a status string including asterisk "*".
This request will return following response

{ "errors": [{ "code": 32, "message": "Could not authenticate you." }]}

My Proposed Solution:

After seeing some suggestions about URL Encoding. I’m trying to encode the asterisk (*) character using %2A. but It doesn’t work for me.

So Just replace the asterisk * with the wide-asterisk ＊. It is perfectly working for me

// An abstract method to updates the authenticating user's current status, also known as tweeting.
@FormUrlEncoded
@POST("/1.1/statuses/update.json")
void update(@Field("status") String status,
            @Field("in_reply_to_status_id") Long inReplyToStatusId,
            @Field("possibly_sensitive") Boolean possiblySensitive,
            @Field("lat") Double latitude,
            @Field("long") Double longitude,
            @Field("place_id") String placeId,
            @Field("display_cooridnates") Boolean displayCoordinates,
            @Field("trim_user") Boolean trimUser,
            @Field("media_ids") String mediaIds,
            Callback<Tweet> cb);
// Replacing the '*' with the wide-asterisk '＊'
String tweet_text="Tweet text with asterisk *";
 tweet_text= tweet_text.replaceAll("[*]","＊");

// Initialization of StatusesService
//Please assume twitterclient is non null object
StatusesService statusesService = twitterApiClient.getStatusesService();
// A method to update the tweet status
statusesService.update(tweet_text, statusId, null, null, null, null, null, null, null,new Callback<Tweet>() {
   @Override
   public void success(Result<Tweet> result) {

   }

   @Override
   public void failure(TwitterException e) { 
                  
   });

If you have any better solution than this, please let me know. Happy Coding and Have a fun…