“Ø” as input in C#

Question

I'm working on automating GUI-testing at my job. I'm currently stuck at something as silly as inserting the character "ø", which is a letter of my language.

The method-call is as follows:
_atlas.AvailabilityRadioSearch.InsertAddressAddress("kjøita");
This is supposed to automatically fill in the value in a standard textbox on the webpage. But, I can't seem to get it right. It always turns out "kj?ita".

Does anybody know how I can go about fixing this?

Oh, and btw;
Please do not care about the crappy method- and classnames, as this is just for testing-purposes and not to be used by anyone else :)

Answer 1

You need to change 'ø' into ø

Answer 2

Think about setting the UI Culture/Culture on your page:

web.config

<configuration> 
  <system.web> 
    <globalizationculture="FR-CH" uiCulture="FR-CH" /> 
  </system.web> 
</configuration>

Page

<%@Page Culture="FR-CH"  uiCulture="FR-CH"  Language="C#" %>

Replace FR-CH with your specific language culture and you should be good to go.

MSDN UI Culture/Culture for ASP.NET

Displaying French in ASP.NET Textbox

List of UI Culture values (eg FR-CH)

Answer 3

Just tested this and it works, despite being clunky:

char oSlash = '\u00F8'; //use '\u00D8' for the uppercase version
_atlas.AvailabilityRadioSearch.InsertAddressAddress("kj" + oSlash + "ita");