SimpleXmlRpcServer and character encoding

[shymon]

Diez B. Roggisch-2 wrote:
> 
> shymon wrote:
> 
>> I'm using SimpleXmlRpcServer class. Although I set encoding parameter in
>> the constructor, I have to return all strings in default platform
>> encoding
>> (windows-1250/win32 or iso-8859-2/linux in my case). When I send values
>> in, for example, UTF-8, string received by client is messed up.
>> 
>> The client is written in java using Apache XmlRpc library 2.0.
>> 
>> Is there any solution other than sending all string values in Base64
>> encoding?
> 
> Use unicode-objects. And unicode IS NOT utf-8. The encoding parameter will
> affect the xml generated & send over the wire - *not* what strings you
> pass/return to your implementation.
> 
> So I think you should remove the encoding parameter alltogether, as this
> will make the transport being in utf-8. Then use only unicode-objects in
> your python code. And on the java-side, things *should* be in order.
> 
> Diez
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I have tried unicode strings also, let's say u"miłość".
Result received by the client was the same as if I sent UTF-8 encoded
string.


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