Thank you both.

I tried to use this function but I have not succeeded.

Here is the exact problem :
I want to produce an xml document which will be in utf-8 encoding. Utf-8 is a unicode encoding as is utf-16. Utf-8 and utf-16 is a representation of unicode characters using one or more bytes. The first 127 characters of utf-8 are represented by the same bytes as ascii. Thats why you never have problems with utf-8 and pure latin characters. Windows 98 uses for greek characters the windows-1253 CodePage which is the default codepage in my pc.

Then i want to convert the greek characters to utf-8 encoding.

Dimitris

>>Hello,
>>Is it possible to encode a string from a local windows or other code page (i.e. windows-1253) to utf-8 with out going via the MS xml parser ??
>>
>>Thank You
>
>From the manual: STRCONV() "Converts character expressions between single-byte, double-byte, UNICODE, and locale-specific representations.".
>
>What I don't quite understand is whether utf-8 the standard (default) Unicode codepage, or not.