You may need to encode. Something like:
puts @agent.element(:id,'blah').encode('UTF-8').to_s
NOTE: Some characters may not encode to UTF-8 however the euro is.
If the comparisons are in your script then that script file needs to be
saved in UTF-8 format.
On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 11:35:16 PM UTC-5, Greg Allen wrote:
>
> I am trying to load a web page using Watir:
>
> @agent = Watir::Browser.new(:firefox)
> @agent.goto url
>
> The web page I am going to contains the euro symbol in strings like this:
> € 1.038,00
>
> If I pull up the page in FireFox and do a view source, I can see the text
> fine.
>
> However, when I print out the HTML in ruby, or access the text of an
> element, I get this: € 1.038,00
>
> I have confirmed that the encoding for the browser and for the strings
> appears to be UTF-8.
>
> I am even running my test on windows and can see FireFox starting up and
> going to the page, which displays the euro symbol correctly. But again,
> when I try to access any of these fields in ruby the euro symbol seems to
> be wrong.
>
> Can somebody tell me what is going on?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Greg
>
>
>
>
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