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 ?

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