Unicode is properly supported in Vapir-Firefox, my fork of firewatir. I recommend you give it a try - see http://vapir.org/ and the wiki at http://wiki.github.com/vapir/vapir/
It's not perfect as it still enters unicode characters into a text field one byte at a time, rather than one character, but the end result is the same - correct unicode entered. That issue is already fixed in the code, and will be in the next release. -Ethan On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 07:30, Gudata <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a problem when I am trying to enter UTF-8 international > character text into Firefox 3.6.6 through WATIR. > > I have a script that attempts to set a string of characters into > textfield. These characters are all cyrillic. > > The Ruby script is saved as UTF-8 and these characters can be read > clearly in the source and in external text editors. I can also cut & > paste these characters into the text fields under test. > > However when watir is trying to enter them, I see the text field go > yellow, but the characters are displayed as "monkey > characters" (garbage) > > I have: > > $KCODE = 'u' > require 'jcode' > require "rubygems" > require "watir" > Watir::Browser.default = 'firefox' > b = Watir::Browser.new > b.goto "http://www.omv.bg/portal/01/bg/shrek/tombola"; > b.goto("http://www.omv.bg"; + b.frame(:name, "lotus_form").src) > b.text_field(:name, @map_inverse[key]).value = 'Ивайло' > > I have found some clues here #1 but they are for IE and it is not very > clear to me what the IE patch does. > > Is there anything that I can do to enter the text right in Firefox? > > #1 > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general/browse_thread/thread/119f1e61bfd37cf7/d901173efe2c7e16?lnk=gst&q=cyrillic#d901173efe2c7e16 > > -- > Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search > before you ask, be nice. > > You received this message because you are subscribed to > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > To post: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: > [email protected]<watir-general%[email protected]> > -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. You received this message because you are subscribed to http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected]
