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Hi guys,

Thanks to lobo and X+, I finally managed to communicate with Civi via Api v3! (Thanks a lot guys!)

Now I have a new challenge - when updating a custom filed value with Ascii value, hte update is accomplished OK.

However, when i do the same with Hebrew chars, the field remains blank.
I tried to use encodeurl($value) - got some encoded version of "יש" in the field, which encourages me to believe that the unicode characters are not supported(?) - any experience with unicode chars with Api v3?

Thanks!
Yosi

Thanks for your quick reply Xavier and sorry for the delay - been a bit busy with business meetings and activities on the internet.

Anyway, I did what you suggested and got the same result.

The underline is the following:
1. Retrieve statements seem to work OK for Unicode values => get operations work like charm.
2. Update statements fail to perform the update properly and remove the target field value, leaving it blank.
3. The above is true for both custom and basic (built-in) fields - checked for first_name and a custom field.

Any suggestions?

Oh my God... Much ado about nothing - so sorry and glad that it was just a noob time-waster!

The php script was not actually saved in UTF-8 encoding - sorry for that man.

I fixed that and now I'm glad it works exactly as you claim Xavier!

Thanks a lot mate!
Yosi