[QA] ° (degree) symbol in selenium tests with chrome

[Željko Filipin]

Moving the discussion to QA list, with Tobi's permission.

Željko

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Tobi Gritschacher <
tobias.gritschacher at wikimedia.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I repeat the question I've sent to you on Skype:
>
> In a selenium test, if I try to enter a string containig the ° (degree)
> symbol into a textfield (e.g. 42° 09.231' N 008° 34.386' E), that would not
> work with chrome. it works fine in firefox, but in chrome it just leaves
> the ° out, resulting in a string like 42 09.231' N 008 34.386' E. do you
> know if there is a solution for that?
> addition: I did already add "# -*- encoding : utf-8 -*-" in the first line
> of the testfile.
>
> thanks,
> cheers,
> tobi
>
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