<p>Flex uses by default UTF-8. I have not fount a way to specify a different encoding/charset on the actionscript WebService class.</p>

[{'answer_id': 80749, 'author': 'Juan Delgado', 'author_id': 5908, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5908', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>Ummm, look here:</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/struts_06.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/struts_06.html</a></p>\n\n<p>I think that sample implies that declaring your mxml file as iso-8859-1 might do the trick, but I really don\'t think so.</p>\n\n<p>I might be wrong but as far as I know the Flash player only handles UTF-8 encoding. I\'ve searched for a link to an official page saying so, but couldn\'t find it.</p>\n\n<p>If that\'s the case you either:</p>\n\n<p>a) update the webservice to handle UTF-8 encoding</p>\n\n<p>b) if that\'s not possible, proxy your call to your own webservice that accepts UTF-8 and then call the actual one.</p>\n\n<p>You might want to give a go to the old system.useCodepage=true trick BUT that didn\'t use to work when the user was on Linux or Mac, USE WITH CARE!</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 81341, 'author': 'Alexandre Victoor', 'author_id': 11897, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11897', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>There is also a way to specify an encoding to the flex compiler but that does not seem to work.\nRight now the only solution I have found is to re-encode the incomming requests on the server side.\nI am surprised this limitation is not written black on white in the flex reference documentation.</p>\n'}]
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