title: how to display twitter images with strange urls in flash?
body: <p>I am parsing the public timeline xml from twitter and want to display images next to the statuses.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is some image urls contain strange characters:</p>
  
  <p>e.g.</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/68803670/Gryn_i_h%E4ngmattan_normal.jpg
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Some of the characters can be replaced with <a href="http://php.net/urlencode" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>urlencode()</code></a>, but I have no idea what to do with asian text or other strange urls.</p>
  
  <p>All I want is something that will return me the default twitter profile png if no valid image url is supplied.</p>
  
  <p>Any hints ?</p>