[Wtr-general] Watir utf-8 support ( japanese support )

[Jeff Wood]

Chris McMahon wrote:

>On 8/12/06, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com> wrote:
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>>Bret Pettichord wrote:
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>>>visweswara wrote:
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>>>>how can we make watir support utf-8 characters?, I would like to write  japanese characters in textboxes of webpages using watir.
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>I also discovered that to make UTF-8 work with the soap4r libraries, I
>had to save my entire Ruby script *as* UTF-8.  For the SOAP stuff,
>it's not enough to have a couple of UTF-8 characters sprinkled among
>the ASCII characters in the script.  The library has to see that the
>entire script file is UTF8-encoded.
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Also, you might want to head over to redhanded.hobix.com ... _why has 
some interesting posts on a person that's written some stuff to embed 
unicode properly ... looks promising.

http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/nikolaiSUtf8LibIsAllReady.html

jd