Hey ravienu,
Im a bit confused and also im a bit too literal sometimes, so youll have to bear with me.
Unicode is a character set
UTF-8 is character encoding
So! Theyre related but are completely different.
Within ReadyAPI you have some system properties (available via the Help menu option) and within here youll see some encoding parameters that are global....ive just had a look at mine and it says cp1252 for sun.encoding and file.encoding parms.
You can override this explicitly and it sounds like youve done this, specifying UTF-8.
To answer your question, yes....its completely reasonable to be explicit with your encoding. You dont mention what payloads youre submitting, but xml includes the char encoding and xml version in the xml declaration at the top of the xml instance, although the requirement for this has relaxed. Regarding json, previous earlier versions of json didnt require encoding, but more recent versions of software that support parsing json uses UTF-8 as the encode.
Whether your api needs the explicit encoding is entirely up to how its been coded and the requirements of the system.
Hhmm...not sure if i actually helped at all.....🤷♂️😉
Oh. One more thing. If no explicit encoding is set for json then its just plain text rules (no encoding) and if i can remember correctly i think thats iso-8859......i think.....
Cheers,
Rich
