+(defun debbugs-convert-soap-value-to-string (string-value)
+ "If STRING-VALUE is unibyte, decode its contents as a UTF-8 string.
+If STRING-VALUE is a multibyte string, then `soap-client'
+received an xsd:string for this value, and will have decoded it
+already.
+
+If STRING-VALUE is a unibyte string, then `soap-client' received
+an xsd:base64Binary, and ran `base64-decode-string' on it to
+produce a unibyte string of bytes.
+
+For some reason, the Debbugs server code base64-encodes strings
+that contain UTF-8 characters, and returns them as
+xsd:base64Binary, instead of just returning them as xsd:string.
+Therefore, when STRING-VALUE is a unibyte string, we assume its
+bytes represent a UTF-8 string and decode them accordingly."
+ (if (stringp string-value)
+ (if (not (multibyte-string-p string-value))
+ (decode-coding-string string-value 'utf-8)
+ string-value)
+ (error "Invalid string value")))
+