* (this is in a loop that only translates ascii characters above 128) * process: we are using UTF8 character sets in XML but we do not have a function that will translate to that in one sweep * so we have to convert first from a single-byte character to a double-byte and then we can go from double-byte to UTF-8) STORE STRCONV(lcOldChar,1) TO lcNewChar && converts from VFP data to DBCS STORE STRCONV(lcNewChar,9) TO lcNewChar2 && converts from DBCS to UTF-8 * (replace the character in the string with the new character)I have tried only converting the VFP character to double-byte (DBCS) i.e. only doing the first translation above, but that did not help. Don't know enough about the encoding to figure this out further. Either the parse chokes or it comes out with the wrong (but sometimes "close" character). The problem character at the moment is the accented capital "A" - ascii 193.