1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Bugzilla/WebService.pm b/Bugzilla/WebService.pm
index a2313803d..94dbb6217 100755
--- a/Bugzilla/WebService.pm
+++ b/Bugzilla/WebService.pm
@@ -112,6 +112,16 @@ sub new {
     return $self;
 }
 
+sub as_string {
+    my $self = shift;
+    my ($value) = @_;
+    # Something weird happens with XML::Parser when we have upper-ASCII 
+    # characters encoded as UTF-8, and this fixes it.
+    utf8::encode($value) if utf8::is_utf8($value) 
+                            && $value =~ /^[\x00-\xff]+$/;
+    return $self->SUPER::as_string($value);
+}
+
 1;
 
 __END__