change encoding from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1

[JuanDG]

Hi,

I have a .Net Web Service and the encoding of the SOAP Messages is always
UTF-8, and I need to change the web service so that it encodes with
ISO-8859-1 because it’s the only encoding my web services client supports.

I've updated my web.config & machine.config Globalization requestEncoding
and requestResponse settings to reflect this but whenever I test this
Through the default asmx page the XML header always includes the UTF-8
property, similarly when we test it using one of the web service clients it
also returns UTF-8 encoded SOAP Messages.

Is there anybody out there that can please help me with this????????

Thanks in advance,

Cheers

--

Juan David Gomez A.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Analista de Desarrollo - PSL S.A.
Web and Wireless Banking
MedellÃ*n - Colombia

[Keenan Newton]

Add this in your constructor of your web service class. I beleive that
should work.

this.Context.Response.ContentEncoding =
System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1");

[JuanDG]

Thanks for the reply

I tried the line on my service and it says that 'this' does not contain a
definition for 'Context', so I created a new service in VWD 2005 and now I
can use your line in the constructor, but the service keeps responding UTF-8
encoded messages.

What am I doing worng??, can you help me a little more?????

Thanks

"Keenan Newton" wrote:

Add this in your constructor of your web service class. I beleive that
should work.

this.Context.Response.ContentEncoding =
System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1");

[Keenan Newton]

Are you sure you put it in the constructor of the Web Service class.
Context is definelty part of the WebService class see the MSDN
documentation.