ReadyAPI French characters not recognize in REST body

[panidjar]

in ReadyAPI I have a REST request that has French characters in the body that it is causing the request not to be sent properly. I've seen another post that states the same issue but there is no valid answer

[JoostDG]

Hi @panidjar . That's perhaps an encoding issue. If you fiddle with the Encoding setting in your rest request properties, doesn't that solve it?

Or more drastically, add this line -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 to your ReadyAPI.vmoptions file in the bin folder of your ReadyAPI installation folder (followed by an empty line) and restart ReadyAPI.