[atechie]

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

[mleonhard]

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]

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