测试api响应给我错误，因为替换字符�与量角器

Question

I am facing a problem testing with protractor.

I am comparing text in my web app with an API I make requests. When I GET a response with Postman, text is written with HTML entities as: &uacute(ú) &ntilde(ñ) and I handle it with a decodeHTMLEntities() function to decode those entities. All is fine up to that point.

The problem comes when I get a ñ or a ¿ (not encoded). I call the API in my test and those characters are return as so the test fails. For example:

ApiObject = {Country: 'España'}
expect('España').toBe(ApiObject.Country)

gives: Expected 'España' to be 'Espa a'

It is not a file format error because if I do console.log('España') , it works fine.

Answer 1

Why can't assert be used for this. Which comes by default in node.js

Positive

var assert = require('assert')
ApiObject = {
    Country: 'España'
}
assert.equal(ApiObject.Country, 'España')

Negative

var assert = require('assert')
ApiObject = {
    Country: 'EspañA'
}
assert.equal(ApiObject.Country, 'España')

changed the country value at last a capital 'A'