Mongodb - non-UTF8

[ThorvaldtM]

Getting error to register transaction with buyer having non-UTF8 names which is not supported by mongodb.
first_name and last_name in ipn_orders need to be converted to a valid UTF8 String

[alexanderdean]

Thanks for raising @ThorvaldtM - pull request welcome.

[piscis]

Hi I had the same problem as a quick fix you can try to enforce the encoding on your paypal profile for your IPN listener. In my case I had to switch to UTF-8 to make it work with MongoDB.

You´ll find the settings after you login to your Paypal account by going to: Profile -> More? -> My selling tools -> "PayPal button language encoding" (grey box near the footer)

On the language encoding site there is a button "More Options" it will take you to a page called "More Encoding Options" see screenshot

In my case I had to change from "windows-1252" to "utf-8".

Anyhow I think its a good idea to have some sort of config value that takes the input encoding and converts it to "utf-8" for MongoDB

[ThorvaldtM]

Thanks for the tip. I guess this doesn't need to be implemented in this module then. I leave it to @alexanderdean to decide then.