KSOAP2 and UTF-8 encoding

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Sending a soapEnvelope to a web service (Java based)
2. Receiving the response with soapEnvelope.bodyIn
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
For example, instead of 
"anyType{cell=Olsbrücken - Otterbacher Waldhaus und zurück; }"

I am getting

"anyType{cell=Olsbr�cken - Otterbacher Waldhaus und zur�ck; }

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
2.54, Windows 7

Please provide any additional information below.
When I send the bodyOut of KSOAP to the web service via Soap UI, it is 
displayed properly in SOAP UI; the raw data in SOAP UI however shows 
(different) dummy characters for the umlauts, but manages to display them 
correctly in the xml-view.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by laistryg...@googlemail.com on 14 Apr 2011 at 11:30

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I found out that the encoding coming from the web service is not UTF-8, but 
ISO-8859-1. I managed to convert the inputstream to UTF-8, and now the umlauts 
are displayed properly.

Original comment by laistryg...@googlemail.com on 14 Apr 2011 at 5:15

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Thanks. I will close the issue therefore.

Original comment by mosa...@gmail.com on 6 Jun 2011 at 10:44

• Changed state: Invalid

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hi u,
    i also have this problem, can you show your code?
my code:
String info = new String(body.toString().getBytes("ISO-8859-1"),"UTF-8");
but not correctly.
thanks u.

Original comment by laodaih...@gmail.com on 6 Sep 2011 at 4:43

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Do not use bodyIn .. and then toString... use getResponse and parse the output 
properly.. 

Original comment by mosa...@gmail.com on 6 Sep 2011 at 3:06

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Hi u,
    I tried it your away, but getResponse or bodyIn both need toString() to get data and parse string output.
    I still have not solved the problem, please help me.
Thanks u repy.

Original comment by laodaih...@gmail.com on 7 Sep 2011 at 5:09

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Not true. If you you getResponse you get a tree or SoapObjects that allow you 
to use the various gettters like getAttribute, getProperty, getPropertyAsString 
and so on.

Original comment by mosa...@gmail.com on 7 Sep 2011 at 3:15

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Hi u,
    U true, but not solved the problem :( 

Here my code:
//use getRespone
Vector<SoapObject> vector = (Vector<SoapObject>) envelope.getResponse();

SoapObject so = null;
for (int c=0; c < vector.size(); c++)
{
    so = vector.elementAt(c);
    Log.i("--trying--0-->>>>>",so.getPropertyAsString("categoryName"));
    Log.i("--trying--01-->>>>>",so.getPropertySafelyAsString("categoryName"));
}

//use bodyin
SoapObject body=(SoapObject)envelope.bodyIn;
int count = body.getPropertyCount();
if(count>0){
        SoapObject so = null;
    Log.i("---getCategory--11-","--count--"+count+"--->"+body);
    for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
    {
        so = (SoapObject) body.getProperty(i);
        Log.i("---trying--02--","-->"+so.getProperty("categoryName").toString());   
    }
}

both show: 
09-08 10:04:47.891: INFO/--trying--0-->>>>>(313): D� sử - cổ trang
09-08 10:04:47.901: INFO/--trying--01-->>>>>(313): D� sử - cổ trang
09-08 10:06:44.901: INFO/--trying--02-->>>>>(313): D� sử - cổ trang

thanks u repy.

Original comment by laodaih...@gmail.com on 8 Sep 2011 at 3:07

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Just use SoapObject response = (SoapObject) envelope.getRepsonse()

and parse from there. The response is not a vector. Just set a break point 
right there aand check it all out.

Original comment by mosa...@gmail.com on 8 Sep 2011 at 5:31

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thanks u repy, I think my problem that is set encoding for envelope, because 
when i set encoding = iso-8859-1 and test in soapUI, response is D� s&#xleed; 
- c&xled5; trang, and when i set encoding = utf-8 and test soapUI, response is 
Dã sử - cổ trang.
thanks u very much.

Original comment by laodaih...@gmail.com on 8 Sep 2011 at 9:22

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:) i fixed my problem, true ís set encoding = utf-8 for header repuest
thanks u very much. good luck!

Original comment by laodaih...@gmail.com on 8 Sep 2011 at 10:51

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Hello laodaih!
Can you please post a snippet of your code?
im looking for that fix too but is not working for me.

thank you!

Original comment by elizeire@gmail.com on 18 Oct 2011 at 7:24

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hi u,
- i use: ksoap2-android-assembly-2.5.7-jar-with-dependencies .jar
- i download class AndroidHttpTransport.java (if need 
AndroidServiceConnection.java)  and custom its:

public class AndroidHttpTransport extends Transport {
..
    public void call(String soapAction, SoapEnvelope envelope)
            throws IOException, XmlPullParserException {
        ...
        connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "kSOAP/2.0");

    connection.setRequestProperty("SOAPAction", soapAction);

    connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "text/xml;charset=UTF-8");

    connection.setRequestProperty("Connection", "close");

        ...
     }
..
}

- code use it:
        ...
        AndroidHttpTransport androidHttpTransport = new AndroidHttpTransport(URL);
    androidHttpTransport.call(SOAP_ACTION_GET_CATEGORY, envelope);
    SoapObject body = (SoapObject) envelope.bodyIn;
        ...

hope, usefull for u.    
thanks. :)

Original comment by laodaih...@gmail.com on 28 Nov 2011 at 6:22

Attachments:

• AndroidHttpTransport.java
• AndroidServiceConnection.java

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With the 2.6.0 release utf encoding is activated by default and you do not have 
to do anything. Just use the normal HttpTransportSE classes as usual.

Original comment by mosa...@gmail.com on 29 Nov 2011 at 7:17

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With the 2.6.0 release utf encoding is activated by default and you do not have 
to do anything. Just use the normal HttpTransportSE classes as usual.

Original comment by mosa...@gmail.com on 29 Nov 2011 at 7:17

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i think im gettin this issue.. how can i know if the webservice enconding is 
utf-8??

Original comment by tiarsoft...@gmail.com on 25 Aug 2012 at 3:47

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I just merged a fix into master that can set the encoding.. build from master 
and try it or wait for the 3.0.0-Rc.2 release.

Original comment by mosa...@gmail.com on 13 Sep 2012 at 5:15

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Hi i use ksoap2  3.3 in my project , i have problem to get string result from 
webservice ! it`s i get this on android : ???·???§?? ?¯?²?????? (???§??) 
?§???²?§???? ???­?µ???? ?±?§ ???´?®?µ ?©?????¯ 

but when i test it on pc browser it`s show correctly 
this is my code : 
env = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(SoapEnvelope.VER11);
env.dotNet = false;
env.xsd = SoapSerializationEnvelope.XSD;
env.enc = SoapSerializationEnvelope.ENC;
request = new SoapObject("customWebService","addProductToCart");
request.addProperty("sessionID", sessionId);
request.addProperty("cartID", cartID);
request.addProperty("productID", productID);
request.addProperty("qty", qty);
request.addProperty("sku", productSKU);
env.setOutputSoapObject(request);

androidHttpTransport = new HttpTransportSE(
    "http://mysiteeee.com/WebServiceSOAP/server.php?wsdl/",
    60000);
androidHttpTransport.debug = true;
androidHttpTransport.call("", env);

result = env.getResponse();

can any body help me ?
thanks

Original comment by MAHDI.FA...@gmail.com on 22 Jul 2014 at 8:24