Encoding issue

Question

Hello everyone,

I am developing a Web Services based on ASP.Net asmx web service. The server end will response byte[] to client encoded in UTF-8, and client to convert the byte[] to string.

My confusion is, the England pound character at server side (I dump just before the Http response is wrote, and the character at server side is correct to be England pound) will be received as ?? from client side. I also used Fiddler at client side to monitor traffic on wire, the on wire traffic is correct to be pound.

Any ideas what is wrong? I suspect it is encoding issue, but I have no idea how to debug further and any settings (settings from client web service proxy?) which will impact?

thanks in advance,
George