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Body in text-method gets encoded with special characters

See original GitHub issue

Example: const myText = 'This is awesome!'; ... text(number, myText);

Output of myText in the messaging app is: This%20is%20awesome!

Any way to quick fix this?

Running on iPhone 6

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Created 7 years ago
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anarchicknightcommented, Jan 13, 2017

2.2.0 has been released with a new method textWithoutEncoding as a temporary workaround which you both can use. Keep in mind that if you have any text for the message which needs encoding (e.g. web urls) then you will be responsible for encoding yourself before passing to the method.

Can you give it a go and let me know if this solves it for you in the short term?

I am going to be working on a V3 of the library which will include a major overhaul of all methods

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kcalmescommented, Jul 13, 2017

@anarchicknight This workaround works for me. Ironically I am using it so a url is not encoded so a url can be sent in a text message. Using the other message the url is encoded and is not a valid link in the text message. So I have a noob question, because you said if I have a url I will need to encode on my own. My question is, why would I ever need to url encode anything when sending a text message? The contents are not being passed into a webview or anything. They are not clickable links? I can’t figure out what I am missing…

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