when posting non english characters

authorizeK — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:52:46 GMT

Hello

It's about non english characters so when I'm posting the data to authorize.net and if there is a non english character it was throwing me an exception that it didn't read the whole string (because non english characters take more bytes, so then I did

Dim encoding As New UTF8Encoding
                Dim bytes As Byte() = encoding.GetBytes(System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(postData.ToString)))
                request.ContentLength = bytes.Length
                Using writeStream As Stream = request.GetRequestStream()

                    writeStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length)
                End Using

and it was working the only problem is that because it's UTF8 it does take off the non english characters.

I got the option to work with UTF7 and i tried but then it says

The following errors have ocurred

(13) The merchant login ID or password is invalid or the account is invalid.

then I searched and found this

https://community.developer.authorize.net/t5/Integration-and-Testing/C-AIM-code-and-non-english-character/td-p/1132

it says the response :

‎12-18-2009 04:47 PM

Hey chengbao,

Unfortunately, non-English characters are not allowed in any of our APIs. Try submitting the request with standard English characters and see if that works.

Thanks,

Michelle

Developer Community Manager

then I called Authorize.net and they told me that Authorize.net does not accept non English Characters, I would like to ask if someone has done something with non English characters (a work around ) or there is nothing I can do.

Thanks so much!!

Re: when posting non english characters

RichardH — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 20:00:24 GMT

Hello @authorizeK

We currently only support characters in iso-8859-1.

Richard

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