publishWsdlImports writes WSDL-XML files with wrong characterset under Windows ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: JBWS-3957 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBWS-3957 Project: JBoss Web Services Issue Type: Bug Environment: WildFly 9, Windows 7 with default Java file.encoding Cp1252. Reporter: Martin Both Assignee: Jim Ma Fix For: jbossws-cxf-5.2.0.Final I would like to deploy a WebService but I get an exception. The WSDL XSD file contains an german character 'ä'. See: Here is the part of the XSD: <xs:simpleType name="Teilnehmerart"> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> <xs:enumeration value="Privat"></xs:enumeration> <xs:enumeration value="Geschäftlich"></xs:enumeration> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> The JBoss class org.jboss.ws.common.utils.AbstractWSDLFilePublisher writes the imported WSDL file using a FileWriter at line 166 + 167. FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(targetFile); wsdlWriter.writeWSDL(subdef, fw); In a next step this file is read again and results in an exception: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence. This is because the file is written in Cp1252 enconding together with an XML prolog UTF-8 encoding. That is crazy and cannot work. A workaround would be to set the Java file.encoding to UTF-8 but that is not what I want. There are two solutions: I think it is better to create a binary OutputStream instead of creating a FileWriter. The wsdlWriter offers two methods! The method with OutputStream argument would always write XML files using a UTF-8 encoding. An other way to fix that would be a bug fix to WSDL4J 1.6.3. The WSDL4J method com.ibm.wsdl.xml.WSDLWriterImpl.writeWSDL(Definition wsdlDef, Writer sink) does map default Java file.encoding to "UTF-8". That is sometimes wrong. The class com.ibm.wsdl.util.xml.DOM2Writer should have an XmlEncodingMapping from "Cp1252" to "Windows-1252". That would fix the problem also. But I think it would be better to use always UTF-8 with the OutputStream method. Best regards Martin Both