DreamT has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi!
I've created a webservice solution for placing orders in a system. It works well, except for that i can't get umlauts (å,ä,ö) to work correctly. SOAP::Lite creates the field
<City xsi:type="xsd:base64Binary">SnVra2FzasOkcnZp</City>
from the code 
...
$City = "Säffle";
...
push @AdressValues, SOAP::Data->name('City'             => "$City");
...

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(Actually, the $City value is first fetched from a text file, but I get the same result when simplifying it as above)
So, of course this is an encoding problem. But, how do I solve it? The original encoding of the $City-string is probably latin1.

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Re: SOAP::LITE and umlauts = Binary??
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 02, 2009 at 12:39 UTC
    perl soapumlaut.pl |xml_pp 
    #!/usr/bin/perl --

use strict;
use warnings;

use SOAP::Lite;
use SOAP::Lite 0.65 +trace => 'debug';

use Encode;

print SOAP::Lite->new->serializer->envelope(
    method => 'DreamT', 
## xsd:base64Binary
#    SOAP::Data->new(City => q!Säffle!),
#    SOAP::Data->name( "City"    => encode('UTF-8',q!Säffle!)),
## not well-formed (invalid token) 
#    SOAP::Data->type("xsd:string")->name( "City"    => q!Säffle!),
## perfect
    SOAP::Data->type("xsd:string")->name( "City"    => encode('UTF-8',
+q!Säffle!)),
);


__END__
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:Envelope soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/enc
+oding/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:
+soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http:/
+/www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSche
+ma-instance">
  <soap:Body>
    <DreamT>
      <City xsi:type="xsd:string">Säffle</City>
    </DreamT>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

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[d/l]
      Thank you! That ALMOST made my day..:-)
      I'm outputting the debug data to a textfile. When I use the utf-8 encoding i Get
      <City xsi:type="xsd:string">Säffle</City>

      and when I disable it I get this
      <City xsi:type="xsd:string">Säffle</City>

      Is this because of the logfile itself, or will it look like this when I post it into the webservice? The Logfile itself is created with Perl and gets populated with CGI::Carp.
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