Webservice: Special characters not displayed correctly

Hi,
I'm facing a problem when retrieving informations via a webservice. I'm able to use it and data is retrieved but when there are special characters into the response they are not displayed correctly. Repsonse of the webservice is XML formatted.
It seems to be a charcter set problem, strange thing is that the response is ISO-8859-1 formatted, this charset should normally display special characters like (é à ...) correctly.
In my code I simply use an if_http_client object to use the webservice.
pv_result = pv_http_client->response->get_cdata( ).
Xml repsonse :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<![CDATA[Eetcaf�/Steakhuis Baskent]]>
Should be Eetcafé
How can I specify a charset for the response object?
I did the same in .NET, where I can bypass this issue specifying the charset like this.
Dim reader As New StreamReader(oResponse.GetResponseStream(), System.Text.Encoding.Default)
Thanks a lot for your help.
Edited by: dom___35 on Dec 21, 2009 3:30 PM

I soved this by using get_data function of response object. Then converting this into ISO-8859-1 charset.
See code below.
DATA : lv_encoding   TYPE abap_encoding,
          lv_conv       TYPE REF TO cl_abap_conv_in_ce,
          lv_x_string   type xstring.
lv_x_string = pv_http_client->response->get_data( ).
    lv_encoding = '1100'.
    lv_conv = cl_abap_conv_in_ce=>create(
                          encoding = lv_encoding
                             input = lv_x_string ).
    lv_conv->read( IMPORTING data = pv_result ).

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