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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# This file is part of Koha.
+#
+# Koha is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Koha is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Koha; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses>.
+
+use Modern::Perl;
+
+use utf8;
+use XML::Simple;
+use Encode;
+
+use Test::More tests => 2;
+use Test::WWW::Mechanize;
+
+my $koha_conf = $ENV{KOHA_CONF};
+my $xml = XMLin($koha_conf);
+
+eval{
+ use C4::Context;
+};
+if ($@) {
+ plan skip_all => "Tests skip. You must have a working Context\n";
+}
+
+my $user = $ENV{KOHA_USER} || $xml->{config}->{user};
+my $password = $ENV{KOHA_PASS} || $xml->{config}->{pass};
+my $intranet = $ENV{KOHA_INTRANET_URL};
+
+if (not defined $intranet) {
+ plan skip_all => "Tests skip. You must set env. variable KOHA_INTRANET_URL to do tests\n";
+}
+
+
+$intranet =~ s#/$##;
+
+my $agent = Test::WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );
+
+# Login
+$agent->get( "$intranet/cgi-bin/koha/mainpage.pl", 'Load the intranet login page' );
+$agent->form_name('loginform');
+$agent->field( 'password', $password );
+$agent->field( 'userid', $user );
+$agent->field( 'branch', '' );
+$agent->click( '', 'Login to the intranet' );
+$agent->get( "$intranet/cgi-bin/koha/about.pl", 'Load the about page' );
+
+# Test about > timeline is correctly encoded
+my $encoded_latin_name = Encode::encode('UTF-8', 'Frédéric Demians');
+my $encoded_cyrillic_name = Encode::encode('UTF-8', 'Сергій Дубик');
+my $history_page = Encode::encode('UTF-8', $agent->text());
+
+ok( $history_page =~ m/$encoded_latin_name/, "Latin characters with umlauts show correctly on the history page." );
+ok( $history_page =~ m/$encoded_cyrillic_name/, "Cyrillic characters with umlauts show correctly on the history page." );
+
+1;