What Manish said was true in our case - we first had to do the following: BufferedReader br= new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(filename), "UTF-8"));
before sending it - of course ours was for a file read - but you have to make sure the actual contents is correct first. On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:29:58 +0530, Manish Jethani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:40:36 -0500, Steve Pruitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I retrieve the data from the database, serialize to xml, and send back as > a > > webservice response. I set my response content type to: > > > > text/xml; charset=utf-8 > > Setting the content-type just tells the client (Flex) that the data is > in utf-8. But you have to actually make the data utf-8 before sending > it across. In Java it's fairly simple -- just pass the charset > parameter to the conversion functions. If you're doing > response.write() or something, you should set the charset (or > "character encoding") in the response object to utf-8 (I'm sorry I > have forgotten the syntax, and you know better). > > Manish > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > ADVERTISEMENT > > > ________________________________ > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.

