> > I'm in the process of trying out Apache XML-RPC's behaviour > on the strings issue. I'll get back when I have some definite results. > > James >
And the answer is: it's no better than CORBA: Java strings containing characters other than those present in Java's now infamous "default character encoding" (aka iso-8859-1 on my system: french, spanish, italian, german, etc...), such as Greek or Russian come out the other end as a bunch of question marks. Probably the XML-RPC code itself also uses Java's "default" conversion methods when converting to InputStreams and OutputStreams: the question marks are a typical indication of that. This is a definate -1 for XML-RPC in my view... Fixing required either * buggering around in XML-RPC source, adding "utf-8" args everywhere, much like I did for Xindice * leaving XML-RPC as is, but taking care never to directly pass strings to it, only encoded byte-arrays we produce ourselves in Xindice. I'd like to look at really how complicated it would be to go for SOAP straight away. James
