>>>You are welcome.
>>
>>I haven't tested it myself, but my colleague told me it doesn't work for high (asci>127) values (although may be he meant the original version I sent him and not yours).
>
>I use this function in conjunction with the VFP 9 function (created by Sergey Berezniker) to decrypt a string. Example of a string is:
>

><Password>12345</Password>
>

>It seems to work for me.

Can you try with a string like

chr(197) + chr(198) + chr(199)

?