Different charsets of strings returned by getText() for FirefoxDriver and RemoteWebDriver

[Tyoma]

Hey everybody. I'm trying to get text (Cyrillic) from webpage encoded
in UTF8. I'm using

driver.findElement(By.xpath(xPath)).getText()

which returns legible text if driver is FirefoxDriver but just
'?????????' if driver is WebRemoteDriver.

I found this while debugging:
// Force encoding as UTF-8.
byte[] bytes = json.toString().getBytes("UTF-8");
return new String(bytes, "UTF-8");

in AbstractExtensionConnection class for FirefoxDriver. And this

if (httpMethod instanceof PostMethod) {
((PostMethod) httpMethod)
.setRequestEntity(new StringRequestEntity(payload,
"application/json", "UTF-8"));
}

in HttpCommandExecutor class for WebRemoteDriver, but getText() uses
Get http method thus charset is not set in UTF8.
Isn't it customizing?

[Simon Stewart]

Sounds like we're not doing the right thing with remote webdriver.
Could you please open an issue for this so that we can track progress
on fixing this?

Regards,

Simon

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[Daniel Wagner-Hall]

Already filed - http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=288

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