Integration Guide

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Using Your PayPal Account Profile
Language Encoding Your Data
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N OTE: Use the IS0-4217 code for the currency_code HTML variable of HTML buttons with
monetary amounts in currencies in other than USD.
Accepting or Denying Cross-Currency Payments
You choose which currencies you accept and how you would like to accept them. You can set
your Payment Receiving Preferences to handle cross-currency payments. See “Blocking
Certain Kinds of Payments” on page 307.
When people make payments in currencies that you hold, the funds appear in your account in
the balance of that currency. When people make payments in currencies that you do not hold,
you can accept or deny the payments.
FIGURE 7.33 Accepting or Denying a Cross-Currency Payment
Receiving fees are assessed in the currency in which the funds were sent. Payments converted
to your primary currency are converted at a competitive exchange rate.
Language Encoding Your Data
Websites that use PayPal in different parts of the world work with different languages and
different character encoding schemes. PayPal refers collectively to these differences as
language encoding.You can set the default language encoding that your website uses to
exchange data with PayPal. The default settings are used for all transactions sent from your
website to PayPal and all automated notifications sent from PayPal to your website. You can
override the default settings on individual transactions with the charset HTML Form
variable.
For more information on overrides, see “Setting the Character Set – charset” on page 339.