Are Chinese characters supported by the World-Check API?

John Williams
John Williams Explorer
in World-Check One

I get a 401 Unauthorized error when I enter Chinese characters in my request.

Here's the example from your Postman Collection.

{
  "secondaryFields": [],
  "entityType": "INDIVIDUAL",
  "customFields": [],
  "groupId":"{{group-id}}",
  "providerTypes": [
    "WATCHLIST"
  ],
  "name": "习近平"
}
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  • brian.bourgault
    brian.bourgault LSEG
    Answer ✓

    Hi @John Williams,

    This is a known issue in the current release of the WC-1 API.

    Chinese characters are supported in the next release (December) of the API.

    Hope this helps,

    Brian

    I successfully tested your example in the next release.

    {
      "secondaryFields": [],
      "entityType": "INDIVIDUAL",
      "customFields": [],
      "groupId":"{{group-id}}",
      "providerTypes": [
        "WATCHLIST"
      ],
      "name": "习近平"
    }

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  • information
    information Explorer

    Hi, I just tested this morning, it does not working if the name is Chinese characters. Could i ask when it would be fixed. Thanks

  • brian.bourgault
    brian.bourgault LSEG

    Hi @information,

    V1.2 of the API also requires you download the latest Postman collection. There's a minor edit to the Pre-request Script to properly calculate the content string length.

    var contentLength = unescape(encodeURIComponent(content)).length;

    Brian

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