[twitter-dev] problem with characters to send messages

[Leo Baiano]

My name is Leo Baiano, I am Brazilian and my English is not very good,
a little PHP program and I am starting time trying to work with the
Twitter API. I found a class ready for sending messages but I'm having
problems with some characters.

The class works but when I use any special characters in the message
here in Brazil two characters after the special character disappears.
For example, if I try to send the message: send only acentuação the
class acentuaç

If I try to send:

a escola é longe

is sent: a escola éonge

The class I'm using is:

$msg = "Testando acentuação com XML préss aqui!!!!";

$out = "POST http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$out .= "Host: twitter.com\r\n";

#Configure abaixo o seu login e senha do Twitter
$out .= "Authorization: Basic ".base64_encode ('user:senha')."\r\n";

$out .= "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
$out .= "Content-length: ".strlen("status=$msg")."\r\n";
$out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
$out .= "status=$msg";

$fp = fsockopen ("twitter.com", 80);
if (fwrite($fp, $out)) {
echo $msg." enviada!";
}
fclose($fp);