In document "Web Services Internationalization Usage Scenarios" at http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-ws-i18n-scenarios-20021220/ states that:
"using UTF-8 or UTF-16 guarantees character encoding interoperability on the SOAP layer" But the TransportMessage.save() class in Apache SOAP is using SOAPContext.setRootPart(String envelope, String contenttype) which automically convert the string in to UTF-8, (contentType is being ignored) Is there any particular reason for restricting non UTF-8 encoding here? I'm a beginner so hope I'm making sense here. Linda __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com