Using Extended Character Sets in API Calls

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You want to use a non-standard character as a value (or part of a value) in an API call (e.g. é), but when you put it in, the call does not work (either failing with an error or not posting the expected character).

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Encode the extended characters using ASCII URL encoding for UTF-8. There are sites that will perform this encoding for you; here is one:

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

For example, making this call:

https://<munchkinid>.mktorest.com/rest/asset/v1/folder/{folder id}/tokens.json?access_token=<accesstoken>&name=TestName&value=Hello+%C3%A9marketo&type=text&folderType=Folder

will create a token called TestName with a value of Hello émarketo.