Hi folks,

We have a problem encoding special characters like é, ç, à, … to an xml-file.
If we put Encoding to “true” in the recordToDocument service xml-data is created: encoding of &, , … is done correctly. However, special characters like é, ç, à, … do not appear encoded in the xml-data.

After sending over http, the characters é, ç, à, … are misformed.

Any help is highly appreciated for this urgent matter.
regards
Wouter & Claire

What is decoding the HTTP post?
How is the XML string created by recordToDocument converted to bytes?

1. Try adding the HTTP header Content-type=text/xml ; charset=“UTF8” to the HTTP POST. This should get the client to decode the entire message as UTF-8.

2. Make sure the string is converted to UTF-8 by sending it to pub.string:stringToBytes with an explicit encoding.

3. The destination XML parser may not implement the default encoding correctly, so you may need to add @encoding = UTF-8 to the boundNode sent to recordToDocument, so there is an explict encoding= in the XML prologue.

hi Fred,

This is how the XML string is created:

• first a recordToDocument step
• then a stringTodocumentstep

In both steps we tried utf-8 as encoding type, but still the character é, à, … is transformed into a very strange (unreadable) character in the XML data.

Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks!!
Wouter

What version of Integration Server are you using?

Just so I’m sure I understand, the output of recordToDocument is something like:

<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?>
<myDoc>
<myElement>é, ç, à</myElement>
</myDoc>

This is sent as a Java String directly to stringToDocument. How do you see the unreadable characters? using documentToRecord? queryDocument?