Encoding issue

Hi,

I am calling a webservice to create a XML file in my webserver. Then I am using a external to return the same to my compoent.

In the component I am using something like the below to display the output.

The issue I am facing is that special characters are displaying as ? question mark.

Please find the attached file.

Any help on the same would be useful.

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Hi,

I am calling a webservice to create a XML file in my webserver. Then I am using a external to return the same to my compoent.

In the component I am using something like the below to display the output.
<xsl:value-of select="//footer" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
The issue I am facing is that special characters are displaying as ? question mark.

Please find the attached file.

Any help on the same would be useful.

Prem.

As a general rule - you need to make sure that all streams (input and output) are specified as having [usually] UTF-8 encoding to (a) ensure that the character data is treated correctly and (b) to ensure that the character data is presented (e.g. in a web page) correctly. My guess is that somewhere within your process the data stream is not being explicitly encoded and it is defaulting to some other (e.g.: "Western") encoding and that's why you're seeing the fill-in (question-mark) characters.

prem_pratick

Thanks,

The issue was due to the cron Job (webservice was added in cronjob) that was used to create the XML.

I added the below values in /var/spool/cron/-user- and restarted the cron. Then the encoding is proper.

SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"

Thanks,
Prem