Changing SOAP message encoding to support WSI-Basic Profile

Support for Universal Transformation Format (UTF)-16 encoding is required by the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0. WebSphere® Application Server conforms to the WS-I Basic Profile 1.1. UTF-16 is a kind of unicode encoding scheme using 16-bit values to store Universal Character Set (UCS) characters. UTF-8 is the most common encoding that is used on the Internet and UTF-16 encoding is typically used for Java™ and Windows® product applications. You can change the encoding in a SOAP message from UTF-8 to UTF-16.

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To learn more about the requirements of the Web Services-Interoperability Basic Profile (WS-I), including UTF-16, see Web Services-Interoperability Basic Profile information.

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Support for UTF-16 encoding is required by WS-I Basic Profile. The application server only supports UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoding of SOAP messages.

You can change the character encoding in one of two ways:

Procedure

Results

You have modified the character encoding from UTF-8 to UTF-16 in the Web service SOAP message.



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