We are building a web services platform (Java) that will support Chinese users and therefor Chinese characters. One of the first things we are trying to test is if our web services can consistently handle the input of Chinese characters. The problem that I run into is that no matter how I copy and paste Chinese characters into the Request field, the characters are always replaced by question marks when you check the raw input.Content of the request field:{"user": { "roleIds": ["4f10aa75820655d1538af713"], "metadata": {}, "givenName": "面包", "login": "面包", "password": "面包", "emailAddresses": ["cheiwing@yingpa.ch"], "phoneNumbers": ["123 1234 1234"], "familyName": "Chen", "avatarUri": null, }} Content of the Raw fieldPOST http://something@something.com:8080/matrix/rest/v1/users?xid=00000000QH7FM00000004 HTTP/1.1Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflateContent-Type: */*Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46cGFzcw==User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1Host: something@something.com:8080Content-Length: 271{"user": { "roleIds": ["4f10aa75820655d1538af713"], "metadata": {}, "givenName": "??", "login": "??", "password": "??", "emailAddresses": ["cheiwing@yingpa.ch"], "phoneNumbers": ["123 1234 1234"], "familyName": "Chen", "avatarUri": null, }} I have tried copying and pasting the Chinese characters directly from Google Translate, Excel spreadsheet and Notepad++, but no success. There must be some way to allow SoapUI to support UTF-8, but I have not figured it out (yet). In my defense, we have only started using SoapUI a few days ago, so we are all very new to this tool.Any help is much appreciated.

It turns out that the fix is to set Encoding to UTF-8 in the Request Properties for each request that uses Chinese characters. You can close this issue. Thx.

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SmartBear_Suppo
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
13 years ago
Hi,

don't let the contents of the Raw view fool you - soapUI is probably sending the correct characters but the font used in the Raw view is not able to display them. Have you tried switching to the native look and feel in the global UI Settings ?

regards,

/Ole
SmartBear Software
Appconomy_Suppo
Occasional Contributor
13 years ago
I changed the look and feel to use 'Native LF' in the Preferences | UI Settings page, restarted SoapUI and invoked the method once more.

The Json object in the Raw screen is exactly the same as before. All Chinese characters are replaced by question marks. The Json object that the method returns, also has questions marks for the fields that should Chinese characters.

We have a number of unit tests where we instantiate objects with Chinese characters, without a problem.

I seems that the issue might be with SoapUI. Can you please investigate this a bit further?

Thx,

Maarten
SmartBear_Suppo
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
13 years ago
Hi Maarten,

hmm... could you please attach the system properties shown in the Help\System Properties dialog?

regards,

/Ole
SmartBear Software
Appconomy_Suppo
Occasional Contributor
13 years ago
Here it is ....

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wsi.dir=C:\Program Files (x86)\SmartBear\soapUI-Pro-4.0.1/wsi-test-tools

I hope this helps. Keep in mind that I am new to using this tool, so the likelyhood of me messing up / missing something is pretty high.
Appconomy_Suppo
Occasional Contributor
13 years ago
It turns out that the fix is to set Encoding to UTF-8 in the Request Properties for each request that uses Chinese characters. You can close this issue. Thx.

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