How to change encoding from ISO to UTF on customerbs document

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Hi,

I’ve read many thread on this but none seems to be complete…

We receive an xml document from one of our customer with
<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“iso-8859-1”?>
as the encoding.
We want to replace it with
<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?>
because it’s messing up some french characters. They can’t change it so we must do something on our end.

I know I may have to build a new receive service (instead of the default wm.tn:receive one) but I’m not sure of the steps I should use. Should I do a recognize first an then transform the string or bytes to utf-8 ? Or maybe I should use some recordtodocument/documenttorecord ? I’m not sure…

Can anyone help ?

Thanks !
Mat

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The service pub.xml:loadXMLNode (set encoding=utf-8) might help the problem.Invoke this in your custom receive service and Once you have Node in the pipe use the xmlNodeToDocument (for parsing)

This is a straight forward approach that replaces the encoding.Sorry if this is not you are looking for.

HTH,

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Yeah, that make sense but i forgot to say that we’re using 4.6 and not 6.0 so these services does not exist.

I found a way to do it with converting the $xmldata string before calling the recognize (inside the wm.tn:receive service):

stringToBytes (set encoding to UTF-8)
bytesToString
stringToDocument
and then call wm.tn:receive

It does the job!

Thanks anyway for your quick response.

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I’m experiencing this problem with an EDI X12 file. The encoding in the EDI config file is set to UTF-8. The file is dropped off in a file poller directory where the file poller service ftp’s the file wn.tn.receive. On the ftp command I’m setting the encoding to UTF-8 but the file still gets truncated at the french e.

Any suggestions how to fix this?

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What encoding is the operating system?

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Ray,

I’m on WIN2K system. The default encoding for wm is UTF-8.
I’m not sure if that’s what you were asking.

chris