Hi experts,

we using JIRA 5.07 in our company and use the webservice method getIssuesFromJqlSearch( ).
If there is an illegal character in some of the description fields we receive the following response:

AXIS error
Sorry, something seems to have gone wrong... here are the details:
Fault - ; nested exception is:
java.io.IOException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The char '0xb' after 'Enable the maintenance side of the business
Install and geo-tag equipment, including meters
View asset schematics, history, dependencies
Execute to guided workflows
Generate notifications and work orders' is not a valid XML character.
AxisFault
faultCode:

{http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}

Server.userException
faultSubcode:
faultString: java.io.IOException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The char '0xb' after 'Enable the maintenance side of the business
Install and geo-tag equipment, including meters
View asset schematics, history, dependencies
Execute to guided workflows
Generate notifications and work orders' is not a valid XML character.
faultActor:
faultNode:
faultDetail:

{http://xml.apache.org/axis/}

hostname:coevi11

So I expect that JIRA not support to save illegal characters or it should convert it to legal ones before it is send to the AXIS framework.
At the moment we have so the problem that we can't continue with the data read because we didn't receive an useable response.

Please provide a solution for that.

Best regards,
Martin