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last-partizan edited this page Jun 27, 2016 · 1 revision

PayPal default charset for your account is "windows-1252", which doesn't support unicode characters.

To fix this, you need to edit your PayPal settings:

Log on to your account. Assuming you have the new interface: Choose Profile (top right) -> Profile and Settings -> My selling preferences -> PayPal button language encoding -> More options

Choose 'UTF-8' from the encoding menu and 'Yes' to the next question.

With this done, unicode characters do indeed come back correctly:

screen correct chars

Source: https://github.com/spookylukey/django-paypal/issues/87

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