WebService stoped talking international chars after from R7->R8 upgrade

We’ve been using a WebService on a R7/Win2003 server that is called from some Oracle server to update the Domino Db. We had no problems with international characters up until we upgraded to R8.02/Win2008 recently. Now we get mish mash instead of int. chars and I can’t seem to find where the problem lies. All occasions in XML and WSDL etc. are specified with “Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8”, and nothing in the code changed since before upgrade:


Dim domParser As NotesDOMParser

Dim node As NotesDOMNode

Set domParser = NotesSession.createDOMParser(strXML)

Set node = domParser.Document.GetElementsByTagName( strElement ).getItem(1)

Print node.FirstChild.NodeValue


The printed value here allready has this problem so I would THINK it gets crumbled in the construction of the NotesDOMParser object, but why? Trying the same code on the same XMLfile on a R7 server gives expected result.

Stuff we SEND from the Domino server to the Oracle system using WebServices gets thru with correct characters.

Any idea of direction to look in is highly appreciated!