# regarding international characters in EDI data **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum\ **Tags:** EDI\ **Created:** [February 20, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/regarding-international-characters-in-edi-data/109510 "2008-02-20T21:15:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kanth505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c89c15/32.png) [@kanth505](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/kanth505)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/regarding-international-characters-in-edi-data/109510/1 "2008-02-20T21:15:00Z")
Hi, I am new to webMethods,facing the problem in international character EDI data. How can i process the EDI data which contain international characters like japanese and chinese in the flowservice which i written in the webMethods Developer 6.1 I mean in which service i have to make changes to process the EDI data. can anyone help me regarding this issue? Thanks, Chandrakanth. ---
**Author:** ![gupta\_r.17495](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9fc348/32.png) [@gupta\_r.17495](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/gupta_r.17495)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/regarding-international-characters-in-edi-data/109510/2 "2008-02-20T21:39:12Z")
May be in the wm.b2b.edi:convertToValues step there is a param for encoding…try setting ISO8859-1 or UTF-16 to handle International chars encoding=ISO8859-1 Moderator,pls move this thread to [webMethods EDI](http://wmusers.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=75) section?? HTH, RMG ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 3:05pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/regarding-international-characters-in-edi-data/109510/3 "2021-04-02T15:05:44Z")