Efficy Overflow Q&A - Recent questions tagged accented-letters

How to convert windows 1252 to UTF-8 ?

Fri, 10 Jun 2022 09:44:52 +0000

Hello,

I'm running into an issue regarding char encoding.

I'm making a Efficy.openUrlSecure(...) POST call to send JSON data to another system.
Data is from a Contact (name, firstname, email, ....) and my call is made in a afterCommit workflow. So all data is taken from database.

If I use a special char like "é" in sent data, the API send me an error :
Error 400. Response : Invalid UTF-8 middle byte 0x22 at...

Code used :

var toSend = JSON.stringify(data);
var headers = ["Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8", "Content-Length: " + toSend.length, "Host: xxx"];

var response = Efficy.openUrlSecure(url, toSend, headers.join("\n"), "POST");

After investigation, this error is caused by an invalid/illegal encoding (windows 1252 instead of UTF-8 which is standard for JSON).

When I check in detail what is sent, the request payload is in windows-1252.

Which brings it to my question : How can I convert my data in windows-1252 to UTF-8 without losing accentuated char ?

Custom agenda appointment modes colors with accents

Wed, 15 May 2019 08:15:44 +0000

Hello,

A customer has been recently moved to the cloud. Efficy version is 11.0

There were custom colors for the different modes and one of them was "Privé". After the move, this didn't work anymore as the mode wasn't recognized.

I found that the problem was the accented character. The file MacroAgendaCustom.txt was encoded in ANSI and when i switched to UTF-8 it worked again.
So when moving to the cloud the encoding somehow changed?

So this is more me reporting this issue than asking a question.
But is this is a known issue? Has this been fixed so that this works no matter the encoding and is this checked when moving to the cloud?

Thank you.

OpenUrlSecure response isn't in UTF-8

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:15:08 +0000

Hi,

I'm working on a Rest API and run into a problem that my response from OpenUrlSecure isn't in UTF-8. So this means that accented letters aren't correctly displayed.
The request that I do is:

var wr = new WebRequest({
        url: this.options.datacollectiefUrl, 
        headers: "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8",
        complete: function(resp, req) {
            return resp;
        }
    });

    var send = function(method, path, data) {           
        return wr.send(data, path, method);
    }

    return send("GET", this.options.apiCommandsUrl.contSearch, format("?user=$0&password=$1&applicationName=$2&id=$3", this.options.licensename, this.options.licensepassword, this.options.appName, companyId));

Is there something that I can change on this request to make it return the response in UTF-8?

Best regards,
Jeroen