FIXED – WordPress-to-lead for Salesforce CRM Encoding problem

I spent some time on fixing this so I just wanted to let you know so you can fix this in you plugin for other users.

I was using Chinese for the error messages and it would not display in Chinese but the encoding got messed up.

After a long time I found the problem

ov_plugin_tools.php

$textinput .= htmlentities(stripslashes($options[$id]));

should be changed to

$textinput .= htmlentities(stripslashes($options[$id]), ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8");

As per the PHP MANUAL
http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

Like htmlspecialchars(), htmlentities() takes an optional third argument encoding which defines encoding used in conversion. If omitted, the default value for this argument is ISO-8859-1 in versions of PHP prior to 5.4.0, and UTF-8 from PHP 5.4.0 onwards. Although this argument is technically optional, you are highly encouraged to specify the correct value for your code.

Peace

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/salesforce-wordpress-to-lead/