Hi, John, please correct me, but my impression is, that we are talking different things here:
>> The original spec allowed ASCII characters only for strings. The word >> "ASCII" was removed 2003. I read this as a limitation of the set of transmittable strings. In other words, a string containing "�" (german umlaut) cannot be transmitted, regardless of encoding or whatever. In other words, the removal of the word "ASCII" would remove the limitation. > Apache XML-RPC uses the ISO 8859/1 encoding (it emits an XML declaration > saying this). The encoding, otoh, doesn't restrict this set. It only has an impact on the values lexical representation. (Besides, I totally agree with you, that UTF-8 and not ISO-8859-1 should be the default encoding.) Which is right? Christoph, perhaps there also is some misunderstandment on your side? Regards, Jochen
