Did you include the encoding in the XML declaration at the start of the document?
>No I've left my Fcreate,Fputs and Fclose as it was except I've used your STRCONV suggestion. But that file while it may have utf-8 encoded content is not marked as such
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>So afterwards I read the whole file into a string using FILETOSTR and then rewrite it using
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>STRTOFILE(lcencodedcontent,lcfilename,4)
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>this output file then is marked as UTF-8 encoded
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>>>Hi Antonio.
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>>> In my case all I know is that the (very precise) Germans at the other end my data feed are telling me that mine is not a UTF-8 file.
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>>>Nick
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António Tavares Lopes