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ezmilhouse
ezmilhouse

Reputation: 9131

paypal REST api: shipping_address does not understand utf8 characters

I'm requesting out of a node application via the nodejs sdk:

paypal.payment.create({ ... }, function (err, transaction) {
    fn(err, transaction);
});

The shipping_address payload looks like this:

{ 
  recipient_name : 'Max Mustermann',
  line1          : 'Neue Schönhauser Str 18', // the 'ö' causes error
  line2          : 'Vorderhaus, links',
  city           : 'Berlin',
  country_code   : 'DE',
  postal_code    : '10178',
  state          : 'BE',
  type           : 'residential' 
}

The utf-8 character in line1 key's value causes a MALFORMED_REQUEST error. If I replace it by oe everything works fine.

Does paypal's REST api understand utf-8?
Do I have to setup the character encoding somewhere?

Thx

Upvotes: 0

Views: 210

Answers (2)

Prasanna_PayPal
Prasanna_PayPal

Reputation: 902

Issue was due to incorrect Content-Length getting set from the nodejs sdk and not the API. We have fixed the SDK and published the latest version to npm. Please use 0.6.4 version which has the fix for the same. Thanks for reporting.

Upvotes: 1

Robert
Robert

Reputation: 19356

It should accept this, yes, of course. Let me check this for you as it shouldn't throw an error on that.

Upvotes: 0

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