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Response Encoding

Response Encoding Schemes

The response fetched from a Web Service or an XML Service from the external data source follows a certain encoding scheme to support different languages or character sets. The response can be encoded using the following formats:

Encoding Algorithm Description
UTF-8 UCS (Unicode Code Space) Transformation Format - 8 bit. Represents every character in the Unicode character set. This is the default encoding format.
ISO-8859-1 Encoding scheme to support the first set of Latin alphabet, which contains 191 characters
US-ASCII Encoding scheme based on the sequence of characters in the English alphabet
UTF-16 16-bit UTF encoding scheme
UTF-16BE UTF 16 bit Big Endian. Encoding scheme that maps Unicode character set to a sequence of 2 bytes (16 bits)
UTF-16LE UTF 16 bit Little Endian. Encoding scheme that maps Unicode character set to a sequence of 2 bytes (16 bits)
Windows-1250 Encoding scheme (under Microsoft Windows) for languages that use Latin script
Windows-1251 8-bit encoding scheme for languages that use Cyrillic alphabet
Windows-1252 Encoding scheme for the Latin alphabet
Windows-1253 Encoding scheme for modern Greek language
Windows-1254 Encoding scheme for Turkish language
Windows-1255 Encoding scheme for Hebrew language
Windows-1256 Encoding scheme for Arabic language
Windows-1257 Encoding scheme for Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian languages under Microsoft Windows
Windows-1258 Encoding scheme for Vietnamese texts