PayPal IPN charset

[fajnalowiec]

Hi,

So I'm in charge of live legacy app which uses PP as one of the payment methods. Currently the app still uses old NVP api.
What bothers me is that in app logs I can see that whenever IPN sends something to our listener there's always a field: 

charset=windows-1252

I assume it's the source of many evil things in our app; e.g. confirming to IPN that we received the message. We have a lot of rejected confirmations (cmd=_notify-validate) by IPN which could be the problem if some characters are encoded in the IPN message by win-1252 and our app sends them back as utf-8.
So I would like to change these IPN messages to UTF-8. I've found this solution in the depths of the internet:

http://jlchereau.blogspot.com/2006/10/paypal-ipn-with-utf8.html

Is it still valid? Can you provide a link? I've tried this on my personal/sandbox account and I was unable to find it.

Regards,

Artur.

[MTS_Justin]

Hello,

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/customerprofileweb?cmd=_profile-language-encoding

Thanks !

[Beeso27]

I have updated my profile setting for my sandbox account to send UTF-8 encoded messages however it seems the payment details are still being sent using windows-1252 encoding. Are there any other tricks to getting this to work in the sandbox account ?

Thanks