Overview

FIX Antenna (Java?)  products fully support UTF-8 encoding.UTF-8 supports , i.e all the CJK (Chinese-JapaniseJapanese-Korean) symbols but has no other meanings for 0x01 instead of SOH.

FIX-Protocol and

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multibyte encoding.

The support of non-ASCII characters was introduced in FIX-protocol since FIX 4.2 (Link?https://www.fixtrading.org/standards/fix-4-2/).

Usage The usage of the multibyte encodings is covered by FIX protocol since FIX 4.2 with the followed algorithm:

1. If the field has no Encoded analog, there is no possibility to use Non-ASCII symbols in this field and still remain compliant with FIX spec.
2. If the field has Encoded analog, the Special Encoded fields are added for work with Non-ASCII symbols. 
3. The field MessageEncoding(347) should be presented and contain specified with the encoding name which is used in the other  Encoded* fields of the message.
4. The

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1. length fields (Encoded*Len) should contain the count of BYTES (Important: not count of symbols) contained in

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1. corresponding Encoded* field.

However, nothing prevents to use UTF-8 8 can be used in any text field. It is not a FIX-compliant way, but the only requirement for such a trick is that the counterparty should In order to keep FIX-protocol compatibility the counterparty must also expect UTF-8 in such field, protocol requirements will not be violated in this caseencoding in the fields.

Work with Encoded fields

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FIX Antenna and FIXEdge support and correctly processes Encoded fields

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and

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UTF-8 in non-encoded fields.

For

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FIX Antenna, it is user responsibility to convert

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the Unicode string with UTF-8 content to the UTF-8 string and vice-versa.

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For custom tags, if the text tag has related pair tag with text length specified, the one can use UTF-8, Unicode or UTF-16 there, if the length should be specified in bytes. In case of the length should be specified in symbols, only UTF-8 can be used. In any scenario, counterparty should expect such encoding in such field.The list of encoded tags

Example

The example shows how to work with tags: EncodedText (355) and EncodedTextLen (354) encoded by  MessageEncoding (347)

Message example: encoding testing.txt

Work with User-defined Encoded Fields

To create a new user-defined field using encoded symbols one should create an extra field for the length of the encoded text in bytes. 

Example

The counterparty must also expect the encoding in these fields.

Dictionary configuration example:

        <fielddic>
            <!-- ... -->
			<fielddef tag="50354"  name="EncodedUserFieldLen" type="int"/>
			<fielddef tag="50355"  name="EncodedUserField" type="String"/>
            <!-- ... -->
        </fielddic> 


		<msgdic>
            <!-- ... -->
            <msgdef msgtype="B" name="NEWS">
               <!-- ... -->
               <field tag="50354"  name="EncodedUserFieldLen" condreq="existtags(T$50355)"/>
               <field tag="50355"  name="EncodedUserField" condreq="existtags(T$50354)"/>
            </msgdef>
            <!-- ... -->
        </msgdic>

Message example: encoding testing custom.txt

FIX Protocol and UTF-16/UTF-32 Encoding

In UTF-16 or Unicode UTF-32 encodings, 0x01 is a page code and can be contained in the field content it makes UTF-16 incompatible with FIX-Protocol.

There is no need to use UTF-16 or UTF-32 while it can be replaced with UTF-8