WSDL files contain an XML encoding declaration that indicates the code page that the web service uses. The most commonly used code pages in XML are UTF-8 and UTF-16. All XML parsers support these two code pages. For information on the XML character encoding specification, go to the W3C website at http://www.w3c.org.

PowerCenter supports the same set of code pages for web services that it supports for relational databases and other flat files. Use any code page supported by both Informatica and the XML specification. Informatica does not support any user-defined code pages.

For web service source and target definitions and Web services Consumer transformations, PowerCenter uses the code page declared in the WSDL file. If Informatica does not support the declared code page, the Designer returns an error.