Unicode in a SOAPMessage attachment

Question

Hi all,
I'm at the end of my resources (and those are very limited when speaking of character sets).
Specifically, I'm having trouble with unicode character 2628 (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2628/index.htm)
The SOAPMessage response I'm receiving is fine.
SOAPMessage response = getResponse();
response.writeTo(System.out); // Works fine. Outputs the cross of lorraine fine.Where I'm having trouble is reading the data from the attachments. I've tried a few hundred different things to no avail.
Iterator attItr = response.getAttachments();
AttachmentPart attPart = (AttachmentPart)attItr.next();                          
String content = new String(attPart.getRawContentBytes(), "UTF-8"); // Doesn't work. Giberish.
String contentTo = attPart.getContent(); // Doesn't work either. Giberish as wellI've tried a few other things ... but I'm really stuck.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Answer 1

public class AttachmentInfo {
private Part part;
private int num;
* Returns the attachment's content type.
public String getAttachmentType() throws MessagingException {
String contentType;
if ((contentType = part.getContentType()) == null)
return "invalid part";
else
     return contentType;
* Returns the attachment's content (if it is plain text).
public String getContent() throws java.io.IOException, MessagingException {
if (hasMimeType("text/plain"))
return (String)part.getContent();
else
return "";
* Returns the attachment's description.
public String getDescription() throws MessagingException {
String description;
if ((description = part.getDescription()) != null)
return description;
else
return "";
* Returns the attachment's filename.
public String getFilename() throws MessagingException {
String filename;
if ((filename = part.getFileName()) != null)
return filename;
else
return "";
* Returns the attachment number.
public String getNum() {
return (Integer.toString(num));
* Method for checking if the attachment has a description.
public boolean hasDescription() throws MessagingException {
return (part.getDescription() != null);
* Method for checking if the attachment has a filename.
public boolean hasFilename() throws MessagingException {
return (part.getFileName() != null);
* Method for checking if the attachment has the desired mime type.
public boolean hasMimeType(String mimeType) throws MessagingException {
return part.isMimeType(mimeType);
* Method for checking the content disposition.
public boolean isInline() throws MessagingException {
if (part.getDisposition() != null)
return part.getDisposition().equals(Part.INLINE);
else
return true;
* Method for mapping a message part to this AttachmentInfo class.
public void setPart(int num, Part part)
throws MessagingException, ParseException {
this.part = part;
this.num = num;
}