[Mono-dev] Umlaute/special Chars

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> I programmed a .Net 2003 VB Webservice, which works fine, but there is
> a problem
> 
> with german umlaute/special chars, like äöüß. Only “?” is shown.
> 
> What should I do?

This is likely an encoding problem.  The problem is tracking it down.

If your web service files are in C#, its easy, the compiler is using one
encoding to compile, and your files are stored in another one.   Use the
-codepage: parameter to mcs to specify the encoding of your sources.

Miguel