Take a look at this link, you need to use the jcode library for unicode support, that being said, it'll be interesting to see if there are any issues that you might hit in Watir: <br><br><a href="http://ruphus.com/blog/2005/06/11/ruby-and-unicode/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://ruphus.com/blog/2005/06/11/ruby-and-unicode/</a><br><br>I personally haven't had the occasion to use unicode in ruby yet., but maybe this helps.<br><br>-Charley<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
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<br><br>I am using watir 1.4.1 and ruby 1.8.4.20(stable) build .<br>I tried using<br><br>WIN32OLE.codepage = WIN32OLE::CP_UTF8<br><br>at the top of scipt , but no luck<br><br>--<br>visw<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------
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