Google APIs: parameters <ie> and <oe> are now ignored

Programming question

[salson]

Hello.

I'm reading Google APIs Release Notes (2002-08-30):

<< Query parameters <ie> and <oe> are now ignored; UTF-8 everywhere >>
[google.com...]

I'm trying to use Google APIs with special characters (spanish and
french characters: ñ,ó,ç,è...) and I get a lot of errors.

Can I activate <ie> and <oe>?

Thank you very much.

[bird]

UTF-8 everywhere

Check the Unicode functions that your language of choice offers for converting your strings from their character set (probably ISO-8859-1) into UTF-8, and the results back. Looks like Google won't do that for you anymore on their end.