Where do I set character encoding in SOAPUI Preferences

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I can't seem to find any character encoding options in SoapUI preferences.

I want to mock xml response in iso-8859-1 encoding.

Very good question: in particular, because Soapui tries to send JSON in something else but UTF-8 on my system, although anything else but UTF-8 is invalid for JSON. — ceving, Jul 25 '22 at 13:58

score 64 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 23 '16 at 10:22

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To set up an encoding for request/response you have to mark it in Navigator. Then in the view under the navigator go to "Request/Response properties" choose encoding and set i.e. to UTF-8 or iso-8859-1.

answered Mar 23 '16 at 10:22

TouDick

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score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 02 '16 at 13:36

You may choose either of the following approach.

Changing the defualt encoding

Go to SOAPUI_HOME/bin.
Open soapui.bat/.sh, depending on your platform.
You should be able find JAVA_OPTS, then you can add there below line in a new line set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Dfile.encoding="iso-8859-1" on windows
export JAVA_OPTS=$JAVA_OPTS -Dfile.encoding="iso-8859-1" on unix
Save the file, start SoapUI.

It should take default encoding as iso-8859-1.

Alternatively, message specific:

Otherwise, you may use message specific character encoding using http headersfor that specific one in the following way:

Set a new header for request / response.
Header Key/name:Content-Type
Header Value :text/xml; charset=iso-8859-1

For those trying this out and it doesn't work, SmartBear changed things around a bit. The file that needs to be edited is `SoapUI-5.#.#.vmoptions` (replacing # with your Version). Add the line `-Dfile.encoding=UTF8` (Note without "") **before** the line `-splash:SoapUI-Spashscreen.png`. Do that and it will work as described in this answer. — Bernd Linde, Oct 16 '19 at 14:25

score 7 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 20 '21 at 11:11

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I know this is an old question but the accepted answer doesn't work for me, I'm in Windows10, in my case I update the SoapUI-5.6.0\bin\SoapUI-5.6.0.vmoptions file, add a new JVM arguments:

-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

Then restart the SOAP-UI, the response can return the correct content(e.g. with some special characters like ®)

edited Jan 20 '21 at 11:11

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answered Jan 20 '21 at 11:05

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score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Jul 29 '18 at 10:19

if you have windows
1- Open NotePad++ as a admin
Go to path C:\Program Files (x86)\SmartBear\SoapUI-5.3.0\bin open soapui.bat and search for

set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Djava.library.path="%SOAPUI_HOME%\"
set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Dwsi.dir="%SOAPUI_HOME%..\wsi-test-tools"
*****set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Dfile.encoding="iso-8859-1"*****

Add the last line above set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Dfile.encoding="iso-8859-1" by taking the ***** out.

Save and restart SOAPUI

Where do I set character encoding in SOAPUI Preferences

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