blogging and scraping

I cannot figure out how to enter the Chinese characters into the textfield of a webpage by firewatir 1.6.5, I tried to change the encoding of the .rb file and the encoding of the firefox browser, but failed.

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘firewatir’

ff = FireWatir::Firefox.new
ff.goto “http://www.google.com“

sleep 1
ff.text_field(:name, ‘q’).set(‘?’)

For Watir 1.6.5, the Chinese charaters can be supported by replacing the script WIN32OLE.codepage = WIN32OLE::CP_UTF8 with WIN32OLE.codepage = WIN32OLE::CP_ACP in the file of C:\Ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\watir-1.6.5\lib\watir\win32ole.rb

We can check the version of the watir and firewatir by executing an rb file with the following script:

require ‘watir’

require ‘firewatir’

puts Watir::IE::VERSION

puts FireWatir::Firefox::VERSION