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diff --git a/actionwebservice/README b/actionwebservice/README index a725f9db71..5b82475fe2 100644 --- a/actionwebservice/README +++ b/actionwebservice/README @@ -215,6 +215,25 @@ custom types and message definition types: The default namespace used is 'urn:ActionWebService', if you don't supply one. + +== ActionWebService and UTF-8 + +If you're going to be sending back strings containing non-ASCII UTF-8 +characters using the <tt>:string</tt> data type, you need to make sure that +Ruby is using UTF-8 as the default encoding for its strings. + +The default in Ruby to use US-ASCII encoding for strings, which causes a string +validation check in the Ruby SOAP library to fail and your string to be sent +back as a Base-64 value, which may confuse clients that expected strings +because of the WSDL. + +Two ways of doing setting the default string encoding are: + +* Start Ruby using the <tt>-Ku</tt> command-line option to the Ruby executable +* Set the <tt>$KCODE</tt> flag in <tt>config/environment.rb</tt> to the + string <tt>'UTF8'</tt> + + == Testing your APIs |