This is a guide on setting up UTF-8 Encoding on Paypal. This guide is meant for users who aren't receiving notifications for donations(on-screen, on the notifications tab, etc).
Note: If you are still not receiving notifications for donations after using guide, please contact support for further troubleshooting. The issue could be with Donation Notification Settings, CSS, etc.
1. Regular/Personal Paypal (This link may take you straight there if you are logged into paypal: Here )
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B. Click on “Profile”
C. Look for the “PayPal button language encoding” section under the My selling tools
D. Click on “Paypal Button Language Encoding”
E. Hit “More Options”
F. Go to second option and select “No, use:” and Select UTF-8 in the drop down box.
G. Hit Save/Okay/Apply at the bottom and you are set.
1B. Business Paypal (This link may take you straight there if you are logged into paypal: Here )
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B. Click on “Profile and Settings”
C. Click On “My Selling Tools”
D. Scroll to bottom and click on “Paypal Button Language Encoding”
E. On Language Encoding Page, hit “More Options”
F. Set Encoding to UTF-8 (You do not need to set the second setting to UTF-8, but I do recommend it.)
G. Hit Save/Okay/Apply at the bottom and you are set.