Finally I found a way to get this working with some manual actions.
1. First of all change the "text file encoding" in the property
settings of the ivy project to UTF-8
1. Change manually the Umlaut characters in the wsdl. i.e. Save the
wsdl into a file and search/replace
the Umlauts.
1. 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.
1. 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"`tempnnnnnn`
with the generated java code that
includes the Umlaut characters.
1. Copy/paste the content of the "tempnnnnnn" `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.