[AWS] Encoding problems with SOAP

[Pascal Obry]

Arnaud,

 > What's the encoding of the string returned by 
 > 
 >    function Get (P : in List; Name : in String) return String;
 >    --  Returns parameter named Name in P as a String value. Raises
 >    --  Types.Data_Error if this parameter does not exist or is not a String.

This is not specified because it returns a standard Ada string with a standard
ASCII encoding.

 > (in SOAP.Parameters) ?
 > 
 > It seems that it's in the 'ada' charset encoding (basic_8bit), despite the 
 > fact that the soap call is made with UTF-8 encoded parameters.

Exactly.

 > If so, is there a way to force a UTF-8 output of the Get function ?

No. All strings are converted from UTF-8 to Basic 8bit during the XML
payload parsing. I'm not sure why you want this string as UTF-8 but a
possible option to avoid this conversion is to pass your string Base64
encoded. I understand that this is only a workaround to a current
limitation. Hope this help.

Pascal.

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