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danielmbanks
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago

Create File with UTF-8 encoding

Hi,   In the "Create File" test step, there are two options for "File encoding": Unicode and US-ASCII. Is there any way to instead use UTF-8 for the encoding? Or an alternative test step that could...
  • Radford's avatar
    Radford
    9 years ago

    I have encountered this very issue.

     

    The problem is that Unicode is a bit ambiguous as it can be implemented by various different character encoding standards. While many would assume that it would use ubiquitous "UTF-8" character encoding Ready API in fact uses the valid but now obsolete "UCS-2" character encoding (I identified this using Notepad++).

     

    I raised this with SmartBear support and they reproduced and confirmed the issue. An enhancement request RIA-744 was raised to allow you to select the Unicode encoding you want to use. I'm unsure if and when this will be implemented.

     

    I was lucky I could get away with using US-ASCII, as an alternative you can look at Groovy to write files (This is what we did before the Create File step was implemented).

     

     

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nmrao
Champion Level 3
Do you like to try it and see if you face any error?

By the way, what is your OS? What does it show => Menu => Help => System Properties => file.encoding?
Radford's avatar
Radford
Super Contributor
9 years ago

I have encountered this very issue.

 

The problem is that Unicode is a bit ambiguous as it can be implemented by various different character encoding standards. While many would assume that it would use ubiquitous "UTF-8" character encoding Ready API in fact uses the valid but now obsolete "UCS-2" character encoding (I identified this using Notepad++).

 

I raised this with SmartBear support and they reproduced and confirmed the issue. An enhancement request RIA-744 was raised to allow you to select the Unicode encoding you want to use. I'm unsure if and when this will be implemented.

 

I was lucky I could get away with using US-ASCII, as an alternative you can look at Groovy to write files (This is what we did before the Create File step was implemented).

 

 

  • danielmbanks's avatar
    danielmbanks
    Occasional Contributor
    9 years ago

    Great answer, thanks!

     

    Do you have a link to RIA-744? I've not seen the ReadyAPI enhancement requests process yet.

    • Radford's avatar
      Radford
      Super Contributor
      9 years ago

      I don't think that there is a published list of requests (I've not seen one), all I'm aware of is this Feature Requests forum.  

       

      I raised the issue directly with support and they raised RIA-744 internally. Personally I consider this a bug, but I think that it got raised as an enhancement request as strictly speaking "UCS-2" is valid.

       

      All I can suggest is that you raise the issue yourself with support quoting RIA-744, as if more people raise the issue perhaps it's priority will increase?

       

      Sorry I can't help further...