Hi,

I want to set up paypal payment for a russian website. (utf-8). Currently I'm testing on the sandbox.

When I generate the payment Link by php, everything is ok. Payment done, IPN called and every cyrillic letter is readable.
When I generate the same Link by Javascript, in some cases I receive an error:

"data does not match input character set or default encoding. for more information, please contact the merchant."

I found out, that it depends on the parametes item_name and custom, that are filled with a static text and the username.

If i utf8_encode the cyrillic username, the error is gone, but the cyrillic letters are shown as ???? ????

How can I send cyrillic letters as item_name ?
Does anyone know ?

Carina