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 |