Ok, Nicholas, if you, by now, have a properly UTF-8 encoded and well formed XML document that the other side of the chain is rejecting on encoding grounds, all I can suggest is that you submit it to a third-party validation tool (such as http://www.xmlvalidation.com/) or get access to the parser they're using (assuming that you already validated it against a parser on your side).

>Yes
>
>>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
>>>
>>>So afterwards I read the whole file into a string using FILETOSTR and then rewrite it using
>>>
>>>STRTOFILE(lcencodedcontent,lcfilename,4)
>>>
>>>this output file then is marked as UTF-8 encoded
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Hi Antonio.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>Nick
>>>>>
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