How to write hyphen minus in katalon

[kazurayam]

See also the following thread where a Hyphen-minus like character confused us:

Working with Page Titles and Content with Special Characters

There are several hyphen-like characters. Please learn the following: @Randy.Ramkissoon You showd the following string contained in your CSV file: In this string, there is a U+2014 — EM DASH. On the other hand, the title of DuckDuckGo site contains U+002D - HYPHEN-MINUS. These 2 characters are different. Why your CSV file contains U+2014 — [EM DASH] rather than U+002D - [HYPHEN-MINUS]? — I do not know. It is most probable that you manually typed it, though you may not be aware of.

Please find my Groovy class StringUtil with a method escapeNonAsciiChar(String str), which prints any UNICODE characters in the str, which is NON-ASCII, in Hex-decimal representation. You should be able to mimic the StringUtil class in Katalon Studio and use the escapeNonAsciiChar method in your Test Case script to verify your string in doubt.

Working with Page Titles and Content with Special Characters

How did I find this? I will tell you. I made a custom Keyword: my.StringUtils: package my public class StringUtils { /** * convert the input string * while escaping all non ASCII characters of which UNICODE code point is larger than 128 * * E.g., * String s = "Hello\u2010world" * println(s) // --> "Hello‐world" * println(StringUtils.escapeNonAsciiChars(s)) // --> "Hello\u2010world" */ static String escapeNonAsciiChars(String str) { S…