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

[Tobi Gritschacher]

Ok,

my environment is Windows 7, Chrome 28, chromedriver 2.1, ruby 1.9.3p194
(2012-04-20) [i386-mingw32], watir-webdriver0.6.4, selenium-webdriver 2.33.0

if I run your exact script, I get an error saying:
*degree.rb:4: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)*
*
*
if I add
*# -*- encoding : utf-8 -*-*
as first line it runs, but it leaves out the degree-symbol as I described
in my first email.

cheers,
tobi



On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Željko Filipin <zfilipin at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Tobi Gritschacher <
> tobias.gritschacher at wikimedia.de> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> It works on my machine! :)
>
> I have Mac 10.8.4, Chrome 28, Ruby 2.0.0p247, selenium-webdriver 2.33.0,
> watir-webdriver 0.6.4, ChromeDriver v2.1.210398.
>
> If I run this Ruby script:
>
> require "watir-webdriver"
> browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome
> browser.goto "google.com"
> browser.text_field(name: "q").set "42° 09.231' N 008° 34.386' E"
> browser.screenshot.save "chrome.png"
>
> degree symbol is entered into text field (see attached screen shot).
>
> Can you share your script and environment?
>
> Željko
>
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