How to change the encoding of a web service in .Net ?

Question

We are developing a web service in .Net, and our client would like the responses of the service to be encoded in something other than UTF-8. Is it possible?

This page seems to indicate it is not possible, but I'd like a second opinion.

The service is an asmx webservice. We are considering switching to WCF if it's the only way to go, but we'd like to keep the effort required for this change to a minimum.

Answer 1

If you're using WCF (which you should be ;) ), then it's as easy as specifying the textEncoding type in your configuration:

<bindings>
  <basicHttpBinding>
    <binding name="MyWebBinding" textEncoding="utf-16" />
  </basicHttpBinding>
</bindings>