Twitter Update Problem with Character Encoding

[Lori]

Hi,

i must admit that i have no in-depth knowledge of the spring-social project and just use it as a module in a big spring web project.

I found that when trying to update the status with special characters in UTF-8 (in particular we use the german umlaute äöü and the sz ß) i get an exception that leads me in a deceptive direction:

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.social.AccountNotConnectedException: Could not authenticate with OAuth.
	at org.springframework.social.twitter.TwitterResponseStatusCodeTranslator.translate(TwitterResponseStatusCodeTranslator.java:76)
	at org.springframework.social.twitter.TwitterTemplate.handleResponseErrors(TwitterTemplate.java:322)
	at org.springframework.social.twitter.TwitterTemplate.updateStatus(TwitterTemplate.java:139)
	at org.springframework.social.twitter.TwitterTemplate.updateStatus(TwitterTemplate.java:131)
	at de.******.scheduled.TwitterJob.main(TwitterJob.java:80)

Is this a known issue? Does everybody except me know that twitter does not accept UTF-8? Is there a setter of the TwitterTemplate class that i missed?

I know that the question will come so i post the code but there is nothing special about it:

public class TwitterJob {
	
	public static final String API_KEY = "***";
	public static final String API_SECRET = "***";
	public static final String ACCESS_TOKEN = "***";
	public static final String ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = "***";

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		TwitterTemplate tt = new TwitterTemplate(API_KEY, API_SECRET, ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET);
		tt.updateStatus("test normal"); // works
		tt.updateStatus("test umlaute äöü"); // EXCEPTION !!!
	}
}

Thanks in advance
Lori