PHP and SOAP - Help needed

[srividya]

Hi,

I have implemented webservices using SOAP and PHP using NuSOAP Toolkit. I am sending the German character ß in the request and the server is giving the error

HTTP Post Operation could not be performed on the URL:http://xxx.xx.x.xxx due to an error.
The server returned an invalid or unrecognized response.

I have also modified nusoap.php to include $soap_defencoding = 'UTF-8' instead of ISO-8859-1.

The server is Apache 1.3.27 on Linux and I am using PHP 4.3.0

Could anyone please help me ? Is it got to with httpd.conf file where I have to set some parameters related to charset/encoding ?

[Norman_Graham]

Hi Srividya

I've had a lot of trouble with on-Roman characters and XML. I can't get UTF-8 to work as it's supposed to. What I do at the moment is do a search and replace for a whole long list of non-Roman characters in the XML doc and replace them with issue-free alternatives, e.g. Ä -- Aumlaut

The alternatives can't be letter combinations which could otherwise appear in normal words. When I output to HTML, I then replace these alternatives with HTML entities, e.g. Ä

I haven't yet found an elegant solution which would make all this unnecessary. I tried using utf8_encode(), but it did weird things and it didn't solve the problem either. I haven't had a problem with SOAP/WSDL, but then I haven't tried non-Roman characters yet. I use the Google API, but only for very simple stuff.

Let me know if you get this fixed, because I'd really like to know how to fix it.

Thanks

Norm