Where do I set character encoding in SOAPUI Preferences

Question

I can\'t seem to find any character encoding options in SoapUI preferences.

I want to mock xml response in iso-8859-1 encoding

Answer 1

You may choose either of the following approach.

Changing the defualt encoding

1. Go to SOAPUI_HOME/bin.
2. Open soapui.bat/.sh, depending on your platform.
3. You should be able find JAVA_OPTS, then you can add there below line in a new line set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Dfile.encoding="iso-8859-1" on windows
   export JAVA_OPTS=$JAVA_OPTS -Dfile.encoding="iso-8859-1" on unix
4. Save the file, start SoapUI.

It should take default encoding as iso-8859-1.

Alternatively, message specific:

Otherwise, you may use message specific character encoding using http headersfor that specific one in the following way:

Set a new header for request / response.
Header Key/name:Content-Type
Header Value :text/xml; charset=iso-8859-1