Unicode characters in PayPal IPN messages

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Here is the link I am using to test: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&[email protected]&currency_code=USD&notify_url=https://mysidte.org/testPaypal.php&item_name=问飞&item_number=0338&custom=打的费

As you can see I set item_name and custom to be Chinese characters. However, in my IPN listener, all these characters are received back as \u001as, though on the checkout page the item_name was correctly displayed.

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I don't know IPN, but in general, you can't use unencoded non-ASCII characters in URLs, they have to be charset-encoded to bytes and then those bytes url-encoded. For example, those Chinese strings using UTF-8 for the charset would look like this in a URL: ...&item_name=%E9%97%AE%E9%A3%9E&...&custom=%E6%89%93%E7%9A%84%E8%B4%B9 – Remy Lebeau

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Go to More Options under Language Encoding