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atechie on May 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: 3 Problems AWS Needs to Address

Also SQS should accept utf-8 in message body rather than a restricted set of characters.

mleonhard on May 9, 2012 | [–]

SOAP is the cause: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets

Fortunately it looks like AWS is starting to use JSON for newer APIs: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/amazondynamodb/latest/deve...

alexchamberlain on May 9, 2012 | [–]

The whole internet needs to work with utf8. Most of it does of course, but there are a few problems around.

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