HydraExpress supports the internationalization of your applications through character and string conversion to and from UTF-8 and your native encoding. When using the generated classes to parse non-UTF-8 XML documents, HydraExpress automatically converts the string data to UTF-8 before unmarshaling, according to the encoding specified in the document’s prolog. On marshaling, the string data remains in UTF-8.

For information on internationalizing your applications, see Chapter 19, “Internationalizing Your Services,” in the HydraExpress Web Service Development Guide.