John Davidson

Message:

I am trying to work with the Amazon Associates API, but whenever trying to get the information of a product, the characters come out in a weird way.


Example

Text on the Amazon page:
???? 【23800 mAh

Output of the JSON from the API: 🔥 ã€23800 mAh


Just like this, more weird characters are appearing, such as a dash transformation in a question mark.


I've used a code snippet in PHP that was provided by them, which contained the following line which determined the charset:

$awsv4->addHeader('content-type', 'application/json; charset=utf-8');


Does anyone have a pointer where I might be going wrong here, and what I could do to fix this weird conversion?

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My Answer:
> It seems like the issue might be related to character encoding. Make sure that you are using the correct character encoding when making the API request and when displaying the response data.

You can try setting the character encoding explicitly in your PHP code using the `mb_convert_encoding` function. For example:

php
$response = mb_convert_encoding($response, 'UTF-8', 'auto');


This will convert the response data to UTF-8 encoding, which is commonly used for handling international characters.

Additionally, you can also check the headers sent by the API response to see if the charset is specified there. You can use the `mb_detect_encoding` function to detect the character encoding of the response data.

If the issue persists, you may need to reach out to Amazon Associates support for further assistance in handling character encoding in the API response.