From: "Bartosz Dziewoński" Date: 2012-07-16T04:19:43+09:00 Subject: Re: watir browser.button umlaut problem Make sure that the webpage and your script are encoded in the same encoding. Then make sure the #encoding: line mentions the same encoding as well. Looks like the site is in iso-8859-1 – is your script? -- Matma Rex