Hi Christof, I believe (?) you meant the last line to be:

? oIE.Document.body.innerText

-Mark

>Hi Denis,
>
>>How can I programmatically convert to text a strings like "ä" ?
>
>You can let Internet Explorer do the work for you:
>

>oIE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
>oIE.Navigate("about:blank")
>oIE.Document.body.innerHTML = "ä"
>? oIE.Document.body.innerHTML
>