In the

SetConfig.xml

file, you can specify the XML encoding type for the

GetConfig.xml

file that Address Verification generates.

When you use the XML API and you do not specify an encoding type in

SetConfig.xml

, Address Verification sets the encoding to UTF-8 or UTF-16 based on whether you use 8-bit or 16-bit API functions. For direct API implementations, the default value is ISO-8859-1.

For C-based APIs, you can use either 8-bit or 16-bit functions. A

W

suffix in the function name, such as

AD_SetInputDataElementW(),

identifies a 16-bit function. If you use 16-bit functions, you must set the encoding to a 16-bit encoding. If you use a 16-bit function when the encoding is set to 8-bit, Address Verification returns an encoding error. If you are using Java APIs, you must set the encoding to UTF-16 as Java supports only 16-bit input and output.