Question
Hoverstate
US
Last activity: 8 Dec 2022 12:39 EST
Send keys containing Japanese text to windows application failing, "unable to parse keystroke string"
I set up a very simple automation to isolate the issue. A simple interrogation of notepad, and an automation to type into notepad. When I use sendkeys with English character set I have no problem, but when I try to send Japanese I receive this error.
Manually I can type into notepad, its only through the sendkeys automation that I receive any error.
Likewise if I use sendkeys into a web form, like google search it is able to type the characters without issue.
Is there perhaps some setup I am missing to use sendkeys with Japanese character set?
Pegasystems Inc.
US
@DanQuinlog I am not aware of any specific limitations regarding sending keys in a foreign language. I believe that because Japanese is Unicode, there might be some differences in how SendKeys are handled. The best way would be to get access to your environment to examine any options and identify what keys you are sending and how to setup a VM to simulate your settings. The easiest way for that to happen is to open a support request since we have no means of accessing your environment via the community.
Updated: 8 Dec 2022 11:19 EST
Hoverstate
US
I may have to do that, but lets check for a more simple workaround first. I know the box can receive the text but I couldn't interrogate it properly, we're using control regions. Is there a way to load a string into the clipboard easily? Then I could just call ctrl+v to paste it.
edit - yeah that works. I was able to load it to clipboard and paste to the application. Thanks for your feedback!
Pegasystems Inc.
US
@DanQuinlog Excellent. That is a great workaround. Incidentally, in 22.1, there is a native method in the Toolbox for copying text to the clipboard.