Hi Brian,
yes you can change the encoding on paypal's end. Look here:
Profile > My Selling Tools > Paypal button language encoding > More options
And select utf8 on both popups.
On Sunday, 17 June 2012 22:42:16 UTC-4, Brian wrote:
>
> I have a pyramid 1.2 application which processes donations made via
> PayPal using a service called PayPal Instant Payment Notification.
> Today, we had a donation from an international user with non-ascii
> characters in their last name. PayPal makes a post request to our
> server with information about the pyramid view that handles these the
> request failed when I tried to access the last name from
> request.params.get('last_name')
>
> I believe requests are encoded as windows-1252, not UTF-8, which is
> causing this error. Unfortunately, I do not have the option of
> changing the encoding method on PayPal's end.
>
>
> File "/home/mario/webapps/mario_dyn/mario/mario/views/donate.py",
> line 241, in donate_ipn
> value = request.params.get(key)
> File "/home/mario/webapps/mario_dyn/lib/python2.7/UserDict.py", line
> 168, in get
> return self[key]
> File "/home/mario/webapps/mario_dyn/lib/python2.7/webob/multidict.py",
> line 312, in __getitem__
> return
> self._decode_value(self.multi.__getitem__(self._encode_key(key)))
> File "/home/mario/webapps/mario_dyn/lib/python2.7/webob/multidict.py",
> line 301, in _decode_value
> value = value.decode(self.encoding, self.errors)
> File "/home/mario/webapps/mario_dyn/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py",
> line 16, in decode
> return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 1:
> invalid continuation byte
>
> So, my question is, how do I tell the the request that the request is
> encoded windows-1252 not utf-8, or convert it to utf-8 prior to
> accessing the params MultiDict.
>
> Thank you,
> Brian
>
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