I had the same problem; my tweets were consistently coming back in Chinese (even using command-line curl), but my web host insisted that there was nothing wrong with the server setup. You can fix this in the upcoming 3.5 release of WordPress with a filter on oembed_fetch_url.
Example code: https://gist.github.com/4055427
Very cool – thanks for the heads-up and sample code.
Pardon my ignorance. Where would I paste the filter to solve this? Server hosted in Germany so all tweets showing German.
You could paste it in your theme’s functions.php. I’ve got a soon-to-be-released plugin that allows users to specify the language just for ease of use.
Hey, I have the same problem. Tweets are being displayed in Hindi, even after adding this filter. Any ideas?
used this in functions.php but doens’t work
tried to change: $lang = ‘nl’;
also doesn’t work.
what can be the reason for this?
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Here proper fix:
add_filter( 'oembed_fetch_url', 'firmasite_oembed_twitter_lang', 10, 3 );
function firmasite_oembed_twitter_lang( $provider, $url, $args ) {
if ( 'twitter.com' == parse_url( $url, PHP_URL_HOST ) ) {
$lang = explode("-", get_bloginfo('language'));
$provider = add_query_arg( 'lang', urlencode( $lang[0] ), $provider );
}
return $provider;
}
Details: http://unsalkorkmaz.com/twitter-embeds-in-wrong-language/
thanks a lot! works fine now.
Noob question. Where would I paste this? My theme’s functions.php?
Thanks
Thanks for posting this function, unsalkorkmaz! Great workaround.
The original mystery still remains – in my case, I wonder why some tweets on the same server and same IP display in English – and some in French?
Noob question. Where would I paste this? My theme’s functions.php?
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/wrong-language-in-twitter-embeds?replies=13#post-3550953
So – yes, functions.php.
Thanks š
Cheers unsalkorkmaz! Worked perfectly.
zoonini is your problem still continue?
You can send me problematic website via contact form:
http://unsalkorkmaz.com/iletisim/
I cant help without see the problem.
