Hi all

I didn't manage to solve = the problem itself, but you may be interested in knowing that I found a = workaround.

I figured out howto use regular expressions for = object recognition, in this case the browser button = name.

Search for a substring of the button name, which = does not contain an Umlaut character and uniquely identifies = it.

Example

=A0 if = browser.button(:value, /hle 6 = Zufallszahlen/).exist?

=A0=A0=A0 browser.button(:value, / hle 6 = Zufallszahlen /).click

=A0 end

regards

Alex

Von: a.schubert@datacomm.ch [mailto:a.schubert@datacomm.ch] =
Gesendet: Sonntag, 15. Juli 2012 19:28
An: = ruby-talk ML
Betreff: watir browser.button umlaut = problem

Hi = all

I am automating some simple Web application testing = using watir, i e clicking on browser buttons, selecting an item from a = dropdown list etc. Everything I got working except the = following.

The script should click on = browser buttons that contain Umlaut characters in its name (German =F6 = for example). Example of a button name "W=E4hle 6 = Zufallszahlen"

Problem: The = script exists with the following error

C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-classic-3.0.0= /lib/watir-classic/element.rb:66:in `assert_exists': Unable to locate = element, using {:tag_name=3D>["button", "submit", = "image", "reset"], :value=3D>"W\xE4hle 6 = Zufallszahlen"} = (Watir::Exception::UnknownObjectException)

---- Begin = script extract = -------------------------------------------------------------------<= /o:p>

#encoding: ISO-8859-1

require 'watir'

browser =3D = Watir::Browser.start "http://gahq.hopto.org/lott= o/lotto.php"

= browser.button(:value,"W=E4hle 6 = Zufallszahlen").click

----End script extract = --------------------------------------------------------------------=

I thought the #encoding ISO-8859-1 ... at the = beginning could help. Without this line (or encoding set to UTF-8 etc) = the script would exit with the error

ruby-lotto4b.rb:18: invalid multibyte char = (US-ASCII)

ruby-lotto4b.rb:18: syntax = error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting ')' = browser.button(:value,"W=E4hle 6 = Zufallszahlen").click

I searched = the forum archive, but couldn't spot any information how-to resolve the = problem.

Has someone encountered the problem as well and found = a solution?

I am using Ruby = 1.9.3-p194 on Win7, browser IE9

Regards

Alex Schubert