Watir currently sees all strings as the default Latin 1-like Windows encoding. By changing to UTF-8, it will make life easier for international users having to deal with non-ASCII characters.
This can be done by adding this line
WIN32OLE.codepage = WIN32OLE::CP_UTF8
Description
Watir currently sees all strings as the default Latin 1-like Windows encoding. By changing to UTF-8, it will make life easier for international users having to deal with non-ASCII characters.
This can be done by adding this line
WIN32OLE.codepage = WIN32OLE::CP_UTF8
Improvement
Resolved
Major
Use UTF-8 codepage [patch]
To revert to the old behaviour:
WIN32OLE.codepage = WIN32OLE::CP_ACP