Inserting events that contain non-ASCII characters using the Google Calendar API (PHP)

Question

I\'m having trouble inserting events using v3 of the Google Calendar API (PHP).

If a description for an event contains a character such as the pound sign £, the even

Answer 1

It turns out there's an easy solution to this. I'd set the HTTP header to use the utf-8 charset but hadn't specifically encoded my description. To add my description to the event I'm now using:

$event->setDescription(utf8_encode($description));