WSE 2.0 and french text

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Sebastien Ollivier - 21 Mar 2005 13:01 GMT

I'm développing a C# Winform application that use PHP Web Services available
on an Apache HTTP Server.

These Web Services retrieve datas from an Oracle database.
These datas can be in french.
In French, special letters such as "é" or "è" are used.

I've generated a proxy wit WSE 2.0 and I'm using it to display my datas in a
ListBox.
Even if the special letters are in the Soap enveloppe of the HTTP Server
response, they are not displayed in my listbox.

For example, the Name "Stéphane" is displayed "Stphane".

If I generate a proxy without WSE 2.0 (without any other change in my
application), there is no problem. The text is correctly displayed.

Does anybody have an Idea ?

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Yves Reynhout - 22 Mar 2005 22:21 GMT

> I'm développing a C# Winform application that use PHP Web Services available
> on an Apache HTTP Server.
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>
> Does anybody have an Idea ?

This seems like an encoding issue. From what I remember you should use
UTF-8 encoding with WSE 2.0 (There's no support for any other form of
encoding).

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Sebastien Ollivier - 23 Mar 2005 09:36 GMT

My Web Service is sending a response encoding with ISO-8859-1.
If i change the settings of my HTTP Server in order to send a response
encoded with UTF-8, an exception is thrown in my C# application because of an
"é" letter included in the soap enveloppe.
I think it's normal because "é" is not UTF-8.

Is there any way to enable ISO-8859-1 encoding in WSE 2.0 ?

> > I'm développing a C# Winform application that use PHP Web Services available
> > on an Apache HTTP Server.
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> UTF-8 encoding with WSE 2.0 (There's no support for any other form of
> encoding).

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Yves Reynhout - 23 Mar 2005 21:40 GMT

> My Web Service is sending a response encoding with ISO-8859-1.
> If i change the settings of my HTTP Server in order to send a response
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> Is there any way to enable ISO-8859-1 encoding in WSE 2.0 ?

1. Does the SOAP response of your PHP web service specify the encoding
in the xml declaration (not as a HTTP header mind you)?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

2. If you have control over the PHP web services, change their encoding
to be UTF-8.

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Sebastien Ollivier - 24 Mar 2005 12:17 GMT

That's what i did !! (read my previous messsage)
But it generates exception in the C# application.

I don't want to supress or convert the special letters.
I want to keep them in my c# application
That's why I would like to find a way that makes WSE 2.0 supporting them !!

> > My Web Service is sending a response encoding with ISO-8859-1.
> > If i change the settings of my HTTP Server in order to send a response
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> 2. If you have control over the PHP web services, change their encoding
> to be UTF-8.

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Yves Reynhout - 24 Mar 2005 13:50 GMT

You changed your http server's encoding settings, NOT the encoding of
the SOAP message (out on a limb here because I don't use Apache nor PHP
web services).

Your best chance to see what is going on is to use some kind of soap
trace tool to see what's crossing the wire encoding wise. (The full http
request/response, maybe you can post it in this forum (just trim the
data, we're only interested in the http headers and the soap specifics)).
Simon Fell @ http://www.pocketsoap.com has a number of trace tools you
can use.

OT: Using SoapEnvelope, you can specify the (request)encoding, by
manually setting the SoapEnvelope.Encoding property.

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Sebastien Ollivier - 24 Mar 2005 16:31 GMT

In fact, I've changed both of them.
By default, th encoding is ISO-8859-1 in the soap Message (with NuSoap).
I can see it using TCPMonitor (Axis) to see my request and my response
If y change the message encoding to UTF-8, the web service still send the
letters in the soap message.

But I don't think that the problem is on the server side.

The fact is that WSE2.0 doesn't support special letters and I would like it
to support them.

> You changed your http server's encoding settings, NOT the encoding of
> the SOAP message (out on a limb here because I don't use Apache nor PHP
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> OT: Using SoapEnvelope, you can specify the (request)encoding, by
> manually setting the SoapEnvelope.Encoding property.

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Yves Reynhout - 25 Mar 2005 00:50 GMT

> The fact is that WSE2.0 doesn't support special letters and I would like it
> to support them.

This is downright untrue. I can send you a project using both asmx and
WSE 2.0 (both client and server, both .NET), that can send é over UTF-8.
Drop me an email at yves.reynhout@nospam.com (replace the nospam with
ultragenda - just hate getting spam).
It has nothing todo with WSE 2.0, but with the encoding on your xml
payload and how your xml payload was encoded.

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