Dear group I uses 'searchTwitter' to get users tweets it works for English words such as ("iphone") but when working with Arabic text example searchTwitter("?????") it gave me the following Error Error in twInterfaceObj$doAPICall(cmd, params, "GET", ...) : Error: Forbidden my questions are how to make it understand the unicode characters? and if It is a hashtag should I write it that way "#?????" many thanks in advance Ragia [[alternative HTML version deleted]]