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Character problems with character encoding of iso-8859-1 sites

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Operating System: Mac OS
Cypress Version: Last
Browser Version: Chrome and Electron

Hello,

My site is not yet in utf8 and i have Character problems for accented characters (doctype iso-8859-1) when I use cypress. It’s not really blocking except when doing regular expression searches :

HTML HEADER CHARSET :

meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"

Result :

Les sites ont bien ï¿½tï¿½ supprimï¿½s
ï¿½ Tous droits rï¿½servï¿½s ï¿½

Thanks Regards

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Created 5 years ago
Reactions:11
Comments:23 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

cannibalcowcommented, Sep 14, 2018

Why is this labeled as a feature? Is this not a bug?

1reaction

jennifer-shehanecommented, Mar 18, 2019

@opensas Look into our custom command documentation

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