German Language Special Characters not retrieved Correctly

Question

I am using a rpc base apache axis web service receiving a vector
/** creating object for calling the web service */
Call call = (Call) service.createCall();
/** setting the web service address by URL */
call.setTargetEndpointAddress(new java.net.URL(options.getURL()));
/** setting the method to be called of the web service */
call.setOperationName(new QName("http://" + strServicePackage,
strServiceMethod));
/** adding the parameter to be sent to the web service */
call.addParameter("arg1", XMLType.XSD_ANYTYPE, ParameterMode.IN);
/** setting the return type of the data to be returned by web service */
call.setReturnType(org.apache.axis.encoding.XMLType.XSD_ANYTYPE);
/** getting the data from the server */
Object objServerProcessedData = call
.invoke(new Object[] { objServiceData });
Object temp[] = new Object[]{ objServiceData };
if( temp[0]!= null ){
     System.out.println("Value of Data after Object Created = "+temp[0].toString());
When receiving the vector in the web service the text of the string changes to "���" to some other characters and on insertion into database "???" are inserted into database. Please Help.

Answer 1

Hi Lookman,
We need to make sure that the conversion to UFT-8 is done correctly, I see that as a potential cause. So first, stop the communication channel in XI, send a test file and download it from the Queue manger where XI is supposed to read the message from (using a tool like RFHUtil).
Then use a code page detector tool (http://cpdetector.sourceforge.net/) to make sure that the data is indeed in UTF-8.
By the way, the destination code page field in a Sender communication channel has no effect(http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/c1/739c4186c2a409e10000000a155106/content.htm).
cheers
danus