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Asked: 2026-05-13T06:47:13+00:00

I have an API that returns XML, it actually returns it using the default

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I have an API that returns XML, it actually returns it using the default encoding (I believe it’s UTF-8), but now requirements have changed and we need to return everything in UTF-16LE.

My question is: is there an easy way of doing this? I have access to the response just before the calls complete so I was wondering if I could do something like

//This method does not exist
response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-16LE");

Thanks a lot!

UPDATE:
The method mentioned is the one to use. I was using an old version (2.3) of the servlet API that did not include it. Changing the version fixed it all.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Uhh, the method does exist, here

    Sets the character encoding (MIME
    charset) of the response being sent to
    the client, for example, to UTF-8. If
    the character encoding has already
    been set by
    setContentType(java.lang.String) or
    setLocale(java.util.Locale), this
    method overrides it. Calling
    setContentType(java.lang.String) with
    the String of text/html and calling
    this method with the String of UTF-8
    is equivalent with calling
    setContentType with the String of
    text/html; charset=UTF-8.

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