HydraExpress supports the internationalization of your Web services through character and string conversion to and from UTF-8 and your native encoding.

When you input XML Schemas and WSDLs with a character encoding other than UTF-8 to the HydraExpress code generator, the internal parser automatically converts the string data to UTF-8 from the encoding specified in the document's prolog.

When using the generated classes to parse non-UTF-8 XML documents, HydraExpress automatically converts the string data to UTF-8 before unmarshaling, according to the encoding specified in the document's prolog. On marshaling, the string data remains in UTF-8.

You may customize HydraExpress in a number of ways in order to work with your characters in another encoding.

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