SikulixIDE How do I change to utf-8

Question

I am using SikulixIDE in python, but a can't change the encoding to utf-8. Someone help-me?

Settings.MoveMouseDelay=0.0
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type("ação")

Answer 1

It is a known issue. The bug is documented here.

The source of this issue is the Java AWT Robot that is used for Sikuli's type(). The usage of the type() is generally restricted to whatever you can produce with your keyboard (which in fact includes some on-ascii characters on many non-EN keyboards). The current version of Sikuli up to 1.0.1 is restricted, to a subset of what Java finally "presses" on your keyboard, taking the given character as the one from the US-layout.

Some restrictions can be overcome, if you know, which US-EN-key to press, to produce a wanted character with your local keyboard layout.

On Windows, there is a trick with the num keys and the alt key to produce non-ascii characters. Press and hold alt and press the 3-digit decimal representation of the character code on the num pad.

If this is a solution for you: you can do that with type, you only need a translation function.

The actual Sikuli code is on github (https://github.com/RaiMan/SikuliX-2014). The key translation is done in the class Key. The interface to Java AWT Robot is in class DesktopRobot.

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