Chinese characters sent in JSON body to a NodeJS Azure Function are not parsed properly

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Chinese characters sent in JSON body to a NodeJS Azure Function are not parsed properly

G-P4cK 1

I have an HTTP trigger typescript Azure function.
If I make a POST request a body like:

{
  "value": "你好"
}

The content of req.body will be something like:

{
  "value": "ä½ å¥½"
}

I guess it's an encoding problem but I cannot replicate when I run the function locally. Only once it's deployed on Azure...
Any idea why?

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MayankBargali-MSFT 70,941 Moderator

Hi @G-P4cK

I tried to repro the issue at my end but couldn't observe the same behavior. Can you test the function from the azure portal and confirm if it is the same behavior? Please also verify if there is any change in the Content-Type or any other header while calling the HTTP method.

Input Parameter:

HTTP function and Response

Updated:
Connected offline and perform some tests using Insomnia tool and observe the same issue.
We perform some more tests using portal and postman test and we couldn't observe the same behavior.

G-P4cK 1 Reputation point

2020-08-03T14:01:25.217+00:00

Hi @MayankBargali-MSFT I confirm there's the same issue if I test the function directly on the portal. I didn't add any header while making the request on the portal.
See the screenshot:
MayankBargali-MSFT 70,941 Reputation points Moderator

2020-08-03T14:50:26.213+00:00

Hi @GP4cK-2388

I have modified my code to add more logging and I didn't observe the issue. I can see the right data in the application insights that I am passing in HTTP request.

I wish to engage with you offline for a closer look and provide quick and specialized assistance, please send an email with the subject line “Attn: Mayank” to AzCommunity[at]Microsoft[dot]com referencing this thread along with the subscription ID, function app and how you are creating the HTTP request (source code).

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