Converting UTF-8 in PEAR SOAP

Hi, I've noticed that PEAR-SOAP will say it sends UTF-8, but there is actually no character conversions going on. It's just setting the Content-Type and setting it in the XML tag definition, but otherwise if you pass it another character set, that's what'll go out the wire. In terms of a SOAP client, this item is very easy to make this change w/o going variable by variable. On line 247, in the call method, just before the comment add: $soap_data = mb_convert_encoding($soap_data, 'UTF-8', 'auto'); // auto, or other list of encodings depending on what version of PHP you have This feel smore like a work around to me, and it only works with mbstring. Thoughts? Al