JAX-WS WebServices do not return UTF-8 by default since 10.3.6 (Doc ID 1593902.1)

Last updated on JUNE 12, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

An upgrade has been done to WLS 10.3.6

WLS changed behavior with regards to in what Characterset the data is returned for JAX-WS WebServices. WLS returns now with the same Content-Type as the request (while in earlier versions this was by default utf-8).  

For example:

- For a given request with:
Content-Type: text/xml;charset=ISO-8859-1
(no other headers specified like Accept-Charset or Accept)

- It will return in the WebService \u00EA (this is ê)

Then the following behavior is seen:
* in WLS versions < 10.3.6 the returned Content-Type is:
Content-Type: text/xml;charset="utf-8"

and C3AA is seen in the payload (this is the UTF-8 codepoint for ê, so correct)

* in WLS versions >= 10.3.6 the returned Content-Type is:
Content-Type: text/xml ;charset=ISO-8859-1

and EA is seen in the payload (this is the ISO-8859-1 codepoint for ê, so correct)

Changes

 upgrade to WLS 10.3.6 or higher

Cause

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