Facebook and Twitter widgets have random 'replacement' characters

[McManCSU]

After poking around, I have noticed some strangeness in the URLs that are behind the facebook and twitter widgets for Pinterest users. Some examples:

• [ ] facebook
  • https://www.pinterest.com/vivibe --> https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=%EF%BF%BD030797041
• [ ] twitter:
  • https://www.pinterest.com/jenrwaugh/ --> http://twitter.com/http://twitter.com/JenRWaugh

For the facebook case - from what I understand, the %EF%BF%BD (url decoded &#65533) is the browser issuing a replacement character for some unknown character. I have noticed the character in seemingly random positions within the url (sometimes in the ID, sometimes in facebook.com - i.e. https://www.f�cebook.com/profile.php?id=xxxxxx)

Twitter largely just seems to be duplicated twitter.com, no encoding issue that I have noticed

I'm sure you are aware of this, but I wanted to point it out and see if there is an ETA on when it may be fixed.

Thanks

[kentbrew]

I'll forward this to the proper authorities, thanks! It's not fixable with our third-party widget code, which does not actually run on pinterest.com.

[McManCSU]

Figured as much, thanks for passing along though