What do you mean with messed up? What you see by an editor or any other form of display and is in your code base in your buffer ready to be displayed are different pairs of shoes.
1. You need to look how UTF-8 encodes the German Umlaut(s)! For that Goto Wiki @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 and read until you unde4rstand it. 2. UTF-8 does not have a single byte for an "ä" or "ö" or "ü" but uses 2 bytes for it. 3. How they get presented to you depends on many thing. OS, Application representing characters, used lower layers of SW like drivers etc. Selected conversions. 4. So looking at them even absolute correct encoded could easy give you the impression about corruption. [from WIKI for you] UTF-8 encodes each of the 1,112,064[7] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#cite_note-6> code points <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_point> in the Unicode character set using one to four 8-bit bytes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte> (termed "octets <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet_(computing)> " in the Unicode Standard). Code points with lower numerical values (i. e., earlier code positions in the Unicode character set, which tend to occur more frequently in practice) are encoded using fewer bytes,[8] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#cite_note-7> making the encoding scheme reasonably efficient. In particular, the first 128 characters of the Unicode character set, which correspond one-to-one with ASCII <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII> , are encoded using a single octet with the same binary value as the corresponding ASCII character, making valid ASCII text valid UTF-8-encoded Unicode text as well. Josef Von: Iyengar, Kumar [mailto:kumar_iyen...@bmc.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2011 08:01 An: axis-u...@ws.apache.org Betreff: addChild with a node that has German characters Hi all, I am copying one node to another node. The Source node contains a child (Text) with German characters. After adding the child to the new node the German characters get messed up. The source node contains a string with 'umlaut a' and in the destination this character is messed up. I checked the factory from which the destination node is created and it has the default char set as "utf-8". Does anyone know why this is happening? Thanks, --kumar
