Hi, good morning from far east. > From: "Brian Marick" <marick / testing.com> > Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 5:57 AM > % ruby wsdlDriver.rb 'Mark Swanson' > /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/xsd/datatypes.rb:184:in `_set': > {http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}string: cannot accept 'Artwork by > <b>Mark</b> <b>Swanson</b> Copyright ¥ã¥¥ 2002 <b>Mark</b> > <b>Swanson</b>. All rights reserved. '. (XSD::ValueSpaceError) > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/xsd/datatypes.rb:125:in `set' > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/encodingstyle/soapHandler.rb:446:in > `decode_textbuf' > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/encodingstyle/soapHandler.rb:223:in > `decode_tag_end' GoogleAPI returns "\xc2\xa9" sequence in utf-8 format. Can you try this? $ ruby -Ku wsdlDriver.rb 'Mark Swanson Copyright Artwork' There may be another reason (no iconv?) though... I cannot reproduce the same error on my linux/cygwin boxes even though I run the wsdlDriver.rb with "-Kn". Beside this, I should add '$KCODE = "UTF8"' at the head of the wsdlDriver.rb. Regards, // NaHi