Question: How can I detect if a user holds their finger down on an onscreen object for 1 second ?

Thanks,

Martin

Answer: 
I had the same problem today, and fixed by ensuring the string was set to UTF-8: 

<http://php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php>

$content = utf8\_encode ( $content );
`$data = str_replace('%EF%BB%BF', '', $data);`

You probably shouldn't be using `stripslashes` -- unless the API returns blackslashed data (and 99.99% chance it doesn't), take that call out.