Thanks Rick

worked a treat.

I added a filetostr and a strtofile to the end of the existing process to convert the filemarker to utf-8

Nick


>Nicholas,
>
>There are two components to make a file UTF-8:
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>* The actual content has to be UTF-8 encode (STRCONV(txt,9))
>* The file has to have a byte order mark
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>The BOM is a value that preceeds the file content and it's a hint for any editor/file reader to detect the encoding of the file. If the BOM is missing many tools will open the file as locale-default ANSI text.
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>The UTF-8 prefix is:
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>
>
>The easiest way to get the BOM into the document is to generate your string then use STRTOFILE(utf8EncodedContent,file,4). The last parameter writes the UTF-8 BOM for you. Note that the encoding parameters are new in VFP 9 I believe...
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>Hope this helps,
>
>+++ Rick ---
>
>
>>HI
>>
>>I'm creating a file using FCREATE etc .
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>>The files contents are some XML
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>>The recipient wants it in UTF-8 format.
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>>how do I ensure that the file I create is in that format .
>>
>>Nick