WebElement.getText() function and utf8

Question

May i assume that for every web page the WebElement.getText() function does return utf8 Strings, or can it have other encodings?

If there could be other encodings, how can i identify it and convert it to utf8?

Answer 1

I don't know no one good way(maybe if you like reflection, you can hack and rewrite) to do getText() return needed encoding. But in this Selenium web driver and multillanguage I wrote some way to encode String.