>What may cause improper character conversion when I pull HTML page content via
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>lnRetVal = InternetReadFile( hURL, @xbuf, xlen, @xlen2)	&& read content into buffer
>STRTOFILE( xbuf , "c:\xbuf.htm" , 1  )
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>Catalogued CHR(133) baskets ( I mean ellipsis in html page )
>Saved in file
>Catalogued … baskets
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>Is it kind of conversion to 3 byte Unicode representation for some reason ?
>Any idea how to overcome that ?

It may be a UTF-8 page. You may find a combination of StrConv() parameters that you may need to apply (from utf-8 to unicode or to DBCS, then to ASCII). You may want to look at the page through a hex editor to see what's exactly inside.