Dear Boris
That code seems like a step into the right direction. Do you know what is the CodePage code for UTF8?

Jaime

>>Dear Gregory
>>I already tried that previously, but no success. By the way, i never converted to singlebyte before, i stopped at the dbcs phase, and in this case the result is the same: i see hebrew characters allright, but they're inversed.
>>Tried also STRCONV(STRCONV(lss,12),6, 1255, 1 ) but i get the same ( ie inversed hebrew strigs )
>>
>>Jaime
>
>Try this function:
>

>lcFile = GETFILE([DAT])
>lcString = FILETOSTR(lcFile)
>lcTestMe = udf_CPConverter(28598,1255, lcString)
>STRTOFILE(lcTestMe, [Test1255.TXT])
>lcTestMe = udf_CPConverter(1255, 28598, lcTestMe)
>STRTOFILE(lcTestMe, [Test28598.TXT])
>
>
>FUNCTION udf_CPConverter()
>Lparameters nCurrentCodePage, nNewCodePage, cString )
>
>Declare Integer IsValidCodePage in WIN32API ;
>     integer nCodePage
>
>Declare Integer MultiByteToWideChar in WIN32API ;
>     integer CodePage,;
>     integer Flags,;
>     string MultyByteStr,;
>     integer MultiByteStrLen,;
>     string @ WideCharStr,;
>     integer WideCharStrLen
>
>
>Declare Integer WideCharToMultiByte in WIN32API ;
>     integer CodePage,;
>     integer Flags,;
>     string MultyByteStr,;
>     integer MultiByteStrLen,;
>     string @ WideCharStr,;
>     integer WideCharStrLen,;
>     integer ,;
>     integer 
>
>
>If IsValidCodePage(nCurrentCodePage) = 0
>     ERROR 1914
>     RETURN ""
>EndIf
>
>If IsValidCodePage(nNewCodePage) = 0
>     ERROR 1914
>     RETURN ""
>EndIf
>
>Local WideCharBuf, MultiByteBuf
>WideCharBuf  = REPLICATE(CHR(0),LEN(cString)*2)
>MultiByteBuf = REPLICATE(CHR(0),LEN(cString))
>
>MultiByteToWideChar;
>     (nCurrentCodePage;
>     ,0;
>     ,cString;
>     ,Len(cString);
>     ,@WideCharBuf;
>     ,Len(WideCharBuf))
>
>
>WideCharToMultiByte;
>     (nNewCodePage;
>     ,0;
>     ,WideCharBuf;
>     ,Len(WideCharBuf);
>     ,@MultiByteBuf;
>     ,Len(MultiByteBuf);
>     ,0,0)
>
>Return MultiByteBuf
>
>*!*    Code Page Identifiers for ISO-8859 are:
>
>*!*    28591 ISO 8859-1 Latin I
>*!*    28592 ISO 8859-2 Central Europe
>*!*    28593 ISO 8859-3 Latin 3
>*!*    28594 ISO 8859-4 Baltic
>*!*    28595 ISO 8859-5 Cyrillic
>*!*    28596 ISO 8859-6 Arabic
>*!*    28597 ISO 8859-7 Greek
>*!*    28598 ISO 8859-8 Hebrew
>*!*    28599 ISO 8859-9 Latin 5
>*!*    28605 ISO 8859-15 Latin 9
>

>
>
>Not mine, but kill me if I remember who wrote it.
>I use it a long time, but when I copy it I forgot to write the Author :-(
>
>(That was a looooong time ago)