Hi,

>>Maybe you have to URLEncode your strings ... How did you create the test file?
>I am creating the file with the MSXML DOM object. The content is used directly from a memo field which contains some French characters. Could it be that there is an XML encoding that we have to use other than RTF-8 in order to benefit of that ability? In order to follow a pre-defined XML schema, I can't encode anything. It has to be sent as is.

I'm not really an expert regarding XML, but try the following:

CREATE CURSOR test (f1 c(30))
REPLACE f1 WITH "à"
CURSORTOXML(ALIAS(), "c:\test.xml",1,512+48,0)
*-- Open file in IE -> Valid

CREATE CURSOR test (f1 c(30))
REPLACE f1 WITH "à"
? CURSORTOXML(ALIAS(), "c:\temp\test.xml",1,512+32,0)
*-- Open file in IE -> Invalid

The first one is generated with character translation to UTF-8, the second one without.

HTH,
Armin