I've also ran into this problem. I've started working on my testscripts using IE and reading data form a spreadsheet. This wasn't functioning for special chars untill i've added require 'win32ole' WIN32OLE.codepage = WIN32OLE::CP_UTF8
But when i tried to get the same scripts running in firefox, the described problem occured. I didn't find a solution yet. So my only advice to you is to use IE -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected]
