Getting Decoding Error with Accented, Latin Characters Magento 2.2

Question

I'm trying to create products via the REST API but in the body of the request I send accented characters (á, é, ñ, etc) and I get a decoding error as a response, I have configured postman to send the request with UTF-8 encoding, but I still get that error, apache is also set with UTF-8 encoding as well. Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

I have the same issue. Workaround is to decode product names before sending to Rest API:

var product_name_encoded = product_name.replace(/[\u00A0-\u9999<>\&]/g, function(i) {
  return '&#'+i.charCodeAt(0)+';';
});