webservice encoding - help!

[Guest]

Hi All,

I'm hoping someone can help as I'm pulling what little hair I have left from
my bald bonce!

I have a web service that returns a string depending upon the request -
however the encoding of the xml document produced is always UTF-8. Due to
circumstances outside my control I have to change the webservice so it is
encoded as ISO-8859-1.

I've updated my web.config & machine.config Globalization requestEncoding
and requestResponse settings to reflect this but whenever I test this
through the default asmx page the XML header always includes the UTF-8
directive, similarly when we test it using one of the web service clients (a
Delphi App) UTF-8 is always used for encoding.

Is there anybody out there that can help with this????????

Please!

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me solve this,

Cheers

Paul.

 

[MSFT]

Hi Paul

We can only return UTF-8 format XML data from VS.NET web service.

Luke
Microsoft Online Support

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[Paul York]

Hi Luke,

Thanks for your response at least this settles it and I can stop hunting
around for ways to change my side and bounce the ball back to the Delphi
guys!

One last question then, what are the globalization paramaters for then? I
though the requestEncoding and requestResponse attributes were specially for
this?

Thanks for any answer,

Paul.

 

[MSFT]

Hi Paul,

Right now the responseencoding and requestencoding is not supported from
Web service.

Luke
Microsoft Online Support

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