Non-ASCII characters blowing up Robot...

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Originally submitted to Google Code by cooldrum3 on 4 May 2011

RF 2.5.7
Python 2.7

When I try to run a script containing ascii characters (such as the ä in German) I get an error message from Robot that parsing the script failed... "UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 1: invalid continuation byte

We have to test foreign language translations and these kinds of characters occur everywhere.

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Originally submitted to Google Code by @pekkaklarck on 4 May 2011

You wrote ASCII but I guess you mean non-ASCII. Anyway, to have non-ASCII chars such as ä (also in Finnish =) you need to have your plain text files encoded as UTF-8. With HTML you can use whatever encoding if you specify that encoding in the headers. You can find the details from the User Guide:
http://robotframework.googlecode.com/hg/doc/userguide/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html?r=2.5.7#supported-file-formats

Does this work for you?

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Originally submitted to Google Code by @pekkaklarck on 18 May 2011

Closing due to lack of information.

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Originally submitted to Google Code by stavanm on 16 Mar 2012

I tried converting my testsuite to .html format and added charset=utf-8
But still facing same issue.

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Originally submitted to Google Code by @pekkaklarck on 16 Mar 2012

stavanm, where did you specify charset=utf-8? Notice that Robot only reads such attribute with HTML files. With other files UTF-8 is assumed. You just need to make sure your file is actually saved using UTF-8.