Integration Guide

PayPal Payments Standard Integration Guide June 2012 387
Using Your PayPal Account Profile
Language Encoding Your Data
9
Enabling the Override of Shipping Rates on Individual Transactions
To enable overrides of shipping rates:
1. Log in to your PayPal account at
https://www.paypal.com.
2. Click the Profile subtab.
The Profile Summary page appears.
3. In the Selling Preferences column, click the Postage Calculations link.
The Postage Calculations page appears
4. Click the checkbox labeled Click here to allow transaction-based postage values to
override the profile postage settings listed above (if profile settings are enabled).
5. Click the Save button.
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.
When you sign up for a PayPal account, the system determines your default language and
encoding based on your country of origin. For example, if you sign up with a French postal
address, your language and encoding are set for Western European languages. 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.
IMPORTANT: If your language encoding preferences do not match the language and
encoding that your website uses, your data cannot be exchanged with PayPal.
In some cases, particularly in Asian countries or with certain operating
systems, the default language and/or encoding chosen by PayPal may not
match those used by your website.
Use your PayPal account profile to set:
 Your website’s language – Set the character set used on your website, such as Western
European, Japanese, or Russian.
 Encoding – Set the character encoding used on your website, such as UTF-8, EUC-JP, or
KOI8-R.
NOTE: For a complete list of supported character encodings, see ““Setting the Character
Set – charset” on page 409.
For step-by-step instructions on changing these settings in your account profile, see the
Merchant Setup and Administration Guide.