Answer by Bruno Bütler

Bruno Bütler — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 06:58:17 -0400

Finally I found a way to get this working with some manual actions.

First of all change the "text file encoding" in the property settings of the ivy project to UTF-8
Change manually the Umlaut characters in the wsdl. i.e. Save the wsdl into a file and search/replace the Umlauts.
Using the modified wsdl, it should be possible to generate the web service configuration. As a result you will find a wsClient_nnnnnn.jar and wsClient_nnnnnn.wsdl file in the lib_ws/client folder in the project.
Generate the web service configuration a second time using the original wsdl. The compile error will still occur, but in the user home directory (e.g. C:\Users\XYZ\AppData\Local\Temp) you will found a folder tempnnnnnn with the generated java code that includes the Umlaut characters.
Copy/paste the content of the tempnnnnnn folder into the /src_ws folder of your ivy project and delete the wsClient_nnnnnn.jar in the lib_ws/client folder. And as last step remove the wsClient_nnnnnn.jar from the Java Build Path of the project.

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