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Asked: 2026-06-06T00:34:49+00:00

I have a donations form in my WordPress blog and the Donation Description is

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I have a donations form in my WordPress blog and the Donation Description is in Hebrew. Now in the PayPal site the Donation Description is in gibberish.

How do i fix it? I have tried to encode the page in UTF-8 and UTF-8 without BOM and still nothing.

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  1. Editorial Team

    It could be that PayPal is expecting ISO-8859-1 data by default.

    Try this from their manual:

    Setting the Character Set – charset
    Use the charset HTML variable to specify the character set and character encoding for the billing information/log-in page on the PayPal website. In addition, this variable sets the same values for information that you send to PayPal in your HTML button code.

    For example, the following INPUT tag sets the encoding to UTF-8:

    <INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="charset" value="utf-8">
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