Japanese characters not shown in PayPal IPN Notification

Question

In PayPal (sandbox) I defined a Japanese User with a first name and a last name with Japanese characters.

However, the IPN notification I receive is encoded with charset=windows-1252. Indeed this is one of the parameters in the HTTP request received from Paypal.

I would like to greet the user using his/her name, but since what I seem to receive is not Unicode, I would be sending garbage characters instead of the payers name.

Is there any way to get the IPN notification from Paypal sent to my listener in Unicode?

possible duplicate of [Why is DoExpressCheckoutPayment required for Paypal?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7984864/why-is-doexpresscheckoutpayment-required-for-paypal) — msangel, Feb 23 '14 at 03:13

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 04 '13 at 01:12

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I found the answer here: https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/forums/ipn/pdt/ipn-encoding-returns-invalid

You should go to Profile->Selling Preferences->Language Encoding->More Options.

answered Jan 04 '13 at 01:12

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 29 '15 at 07:10

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New path for this setting: Profile -> My selling tools -> PayPal button language encoding -> More Options -> "Do you want to use the same encoding for data sent from PayPal to you (e.g., IPN, downloadable logs, emails)?" -> select "No, use: UTF8"

answered Jun 29 '15 at 07:10

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Japanese characters not shown in PayPal IPN Notification

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