KarateUI Wildcard Locators doesn't match special characters (ä, ü, ö)

Question

Im trying to find an html element with the exact text:

Then assert exists('{a}Enddatum: Bitte geben Sie ein gültiges Enddatum für das Koordinierungsverfahren im Format tt.mm.jjjj an.').exists

THe HTML-Element im looking for looks like this:

Enddatum: Bitte geben Sie ein gültiges Enddatum für das Koordinierungsverfahren im Format tt.mm.jjjj an.

The assertion fails, i think the ecnoding is the problem, because the 'ü' turns into a '³':

ERROR com.intuit.karate - assertion failed: assert evaluated to false: exists('{a}Enddatum: Bitte geben Sie ein g³ltiges Enddatum f³r das Koordinierungsverfahren im Format tt.mm.jjjj an.').exists

I tried to escape the 'ü' in different Ways, but till now i had no luck.

user_143475 · Answer

It is important that you follow this process, because it sounds like a fundamental problem that needs to be fixed: https://github.com/intuit/karate/tree/develop/examples/ui-test

It won't take you much time, here is an example: https://github.com/intuit/karate/issues/1180#issuecomment-646615777

Perhaps you are using the Visual Studio Code / karate.jar option ? In that case, can you try adding this system parameter: -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

For example, this is the edit you need to make:

KarateUI Wildcard Locators doesn't match special characters (ä, ü, ö)

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