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Is it possible to define coding like UTF-8, UTF-16 or ASCII with Ranorex?
I'm using an implementation with Ranorex 1.2.0.

Hi,

I do not really understand what you mean with,

define coding like UTF-8, UTF-16 or ASCII

can you explain it in a more detailed way?
We would also suggest you to update to a newer version, because this version is about 4 years old and we have changed nearly everything with the old Ranorex 2.X release.

Regards,
Markus
Ranorex Support Team

Ranorex writes texts into GUI elements like list boxes, buttons, menus, title bars etc.
The question simply is which character set is used for writing these texts.

UTF-8 (Unicode Standard) for example defines 1-byte characters as used in the ASCII character set, but also characters using more than 1 byte. This implies that character codes with the numeric value higher than 127 use up more than 1 byte in UTF-8.

The question came up when texts were not displayed correctly, e.g. there were "?" characters not specified in the program - this could indicate that Ranorex sends character codings which are not compatible with the application or operating system configuration.

So far I assumed that Ranorex uses ASCII encoding, i.e. character values from 0 to 127.

Regards,
H. Groh

Hi,

Normally we use UTF-8 and for "press/keyboard" actions we use/call keyboard events.

Regards,
Markus
Ranorex Support Team