CXF, Unicode, utf8, encoding issue

[John Baker]

Hi,

I'm looking at Unicode characters returned via a webservice call.  The common 
encoding scenerio - it works for me, where a CXF generated client can make a 
WS call, the WS call returns a String containing Unicode characters, and the 
client converts them correctly.  However for someone in the US, it doesn't 
work.

Here's a sample out message:

INFO: Outbound Message
---------------------------
Encoding: UTF-8
Headers: {}
Messages:
Payload: <soap:Envelope 
xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";><soap:Body><ns1:queryResponse
 
xmlns:ns1="http://services.integration.javasystemsolutions.com/";><return>
      &lt;shortDescription&gt;àèìòù!&quot;
£$&amp;amp;/()=...@[]#|!&lt;/shortDescription&gt;;
</return></ns1:queryResponse></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

(I'm returning a String that contains some XML.)

I guess I'm wondering if this is acceptable?  If the client interprets that 
String as utf-8, should there be no problem?

I've used wsmonitor to check the response from CXF and it definitely includes 
the utf-8 encoding:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";>
    <soap:Body>

(etc.)

The client experiencing problems is .NET.


John