How to handle UTF-8 character encoding in http log in SOAPUI

Question

We are generating xml using a web service(cobol code) in which we are doing an XML GENERATE to generate xml from a copybook. Now this generated XML consists of special chara

Answer 1

It is possible to change encoding using below steps.

• Go to SOAPUI_HOME/bin.
• Open soapui.bat (or.sh), depending on your platform.

• 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="utf-8" - on windows

  export JAVA_OPTS=$JAVA_OPTS -Dfile.encoding="utf-8" - on linux

• Save the file, start SoapUI using soapui.bat( or .sh) utility.