WebDriver is unable to element by_partial_link_text with extend ASCII characters

[mike-white-extr]

I have a web interface that has extended ASCII characters in this case I am using the
element by_partial_link_text
with the following text Français
The page has the following html
Français
the script can find it if i remove all the extended ascii characters "Fran"
but in the future I will need to find the extended ASCII
If you would like to test it is online at:
https://www.ezcloudx.com/#/
it is from the internationalization pulldown top left.

[tobijk]

I won't be able to check this before Monday. In the mean time, please double check that your pages (and your server) advertise the correct page encoding. If I access the page above in iOS I see Francais all garbled which to me seems that it cannot detect the encoding of the page.

[tobijk]

As I suspected, the content encoding is not advertised. Please add

<meta charset="utf-8" />

to your pages and/or let your server advertise the content encoding. Then your problem will go away.

[tobijk]

Closing as invalid.