Thanks for pointing out this bug. It will be fixed for the next release of Eggplant. We apologize for the inconvenience.
I don’t know why you would just be seeing this recently. Nothing has changed with Eggplant, and it appears that the problem has been present for quite some time.
Unfortunately, I don’t see any easy way to work around this particular problem. In the not-so-easy workaround category, here’s a function you can call to compare two strings that may contain non-ASCII characters:
function stringsAreEqual str1, str2
if the length of str1 is not the length of str2 then return false
repeat with n=1 to the length of str1
if charToNum(char n of str1) is not charToNum(char n of str2)
then return false
end repeat
return true
end stringsAreEqual
Then replace your test with:
if not stringsAreEqual(txtTest1, txtTest2) then
Log B
end if
Hopefully this will help you to get by until the fix can be released.