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Asked: 2026-05-18T06:15:47+00:00

Unfortunately I’m working in an obscure platform called uniPaaS so I’m probably after some

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Unfortunately I’m working in an obscure platform called uniPaaS so I’m probably after some platform-agnostic advice.

I’ve got a Web Service request where the XML document contains those irritating smart quotes. The byte data for the character is E2 80 99 (which is a 00002019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK)

Wireshark capture of SOAP request

When I write the XML file to disk on our staging server, it writes it correctly. When I write it on our production server, it totally changes the values of those bytes and malforms the XML document:

Hex comparison of the two files

E2 80 99 becomes 92. Has anyone ever seen this sort of behaviour before? It seems to only be that one byte string (but the SOAP resonse is 50Mb large, so I haven’t had a chance to diff the entire file).

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s encoding it as CP1251.

    >>> '\x92'.decode('cp1251').encode('utf-8')
'\xe2\x80\x99'
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