[jira] Commented: (AXISCPP-964) Server response not UTF-8 encoded (but claims to be)

["nadir amra (JIRA)" <ax...@ws.apache.org>]

    [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXISCPP-964?page=comments#action_12375651 ] 

nadir amra commented on AXISCPP-964:
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Henrik,

I think the Axis support expects you to run in a locale that is UTF-8 (other than OS/400), so the code to serialize is correct. However, I do agree that in order for Axis to run in non-UTF-8 locales, there would need to be some sort of translation step.  


> Server response not UTF-8 encoded (but claims to be)
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: AXISCPP-964
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXISCPP-964
>      Project: Axis-C++
>         Type: Bug

>   Components: SOAP
>     Versions: current (nightly)
>  Environment: All platforms, except OS/400
>     Reporter: Henrik Nordberg

>
> (See the end of this description for a one-liner that works around this problem for most cases.)
> SoapSerializer.cpp, line 379 says
> serialize( "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>", NULL);
> that is that the SOAP response is UTF-8 encoded. But this is only true for OS/400 as can be seen in HTTPTransport.cpp, lines 311-
> #ifndef __OS400__
>         *m_pActiveChannel << this->getHTTPHeaders ();
>         *m_pActiveChannel << this->m_strBytesToSend.c_str ();
> #else
>         // Ebcdic (OS/400) systems need to convert the data to UTF-8. Note that free() is 
>         // correctly used and should not be changed to delete().		
>         const char *buf = this->getHTTPHeaders ();
>         utf8Buf = toUTF8((char *)buf, strlen(buf)+1);
>         *m_pActiveChannel << utf8Buf;
>         free(utf8Buf);
>         utf8Buf = NULL;
>         utf8Buf = toUTF8((char *)this->m_strBytesToSend.c_str(), this->m_strBytesToSend.length()+1);
>         *m_pActiveChannel << utf8Buf;
>         free(utf8Buf);
>         utf8Buf = NULL;
> #endif
> This leads to clients trying to decode the response as UTF-8, and will have errors whenever the response contains non-ASCII characters (i.e., > 127).
> Axis Java, for example, will prduce this error upon decoding: 
> "java.io.UTFDataFormatException: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence."
> A simple workaround is to change SoapSerializer.cpp, line 379:
> from
> serialize( "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>", NULL);
> to
> serialize( "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1' ?>", NULL);
> The real fix, however, is to encode the response with UTF-8 for all platforms (not just OS/400).

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