Converting from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-I with Axis2 and Java

[Bruno Negrao]

Guys, I'm developing a JAVA GUI that runs on Windows XP where the user can enter account data that will be stored on a linux+postgre server.

The data is sent from the GUI to the postgre server using soap. I'm using axis2 on the client side. (the server-side uses Perl SOAP)

The problem is the server is configured to use ISO-8859-1, while my Java application is sending the data using UTF-8. All the strings containing non-ascii characters are being stored incorrectly on the server. The server is not converting from utf-8 to iso-8859-i before storing the data.

Since the people on the server-side say "we cannot change nothing", and they suggested "you have to send this data in iso-8859-1", I'm obligated to send my SOAP post's using ISO-8859-1 strings instead of UTF-8.

I have no idea of how can I do this. Can someone give some hints on this?

Thank you very much,

bruno.