How can I keep accents ( french) in my text?

Hi there,

I am creating automated invoices for Paypal Payments.

For each purchase, I get the data of the customer from Paypal : Name, adresse, zip, City ( which I need for the invoice) and upload it into a google sheet.
The problem is we french people have accents everywhere, and we want to keep them, for exemple :

Laura Maroudé, 39 rue du Théâtre, 75019 Paris

will become in my google sheets :

Laura Maroud%E9, 39 Th%E9%E2tre, 75019 Paris

How can I tell make to keep the accents, or to revert them back ?

The issue is also, it’s not in every name so either I find a way to tell make to get the data as it is, or in find a way to revert back IF there is an accent.
Problem is, there are a lot of différent accents, I can’t imagine to use the replace function with every possibility to cover everything.

Thanks !

Hi @Alexandra_P ,

That’s strange, I have tried to reproduce your problem, my result is different.

My test scenario is the following:

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Variable feeding:
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In Google Sheet:
image

Here is the corresponding blueprint:
accent.json (22.4 KB)

Could you add some more information, the blueprint of your scenario, some screenshots?

BR,

PBI

Hello Philippe,

Thanx for taking the time :slight_smile:

So the data comes from paypal, this is the scenario :

and the output data looks systematicaly like this :

I’m currently trying something like this to replace a few of the most common accents (I still have to test it), I’ll see if it works but there are too much accents to cover them all !

Any ideas ?

Thank you !

That’s an interesting (and courageous) option.
But according to your screenshot, the output values of the PayPal module are “corrupted”, you should contact the support here, they may help you.

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