Hi Fabio,

Thanks for your response. StrConv was one of the options I did try, but with no result. Further testing with this revealed that the BOM does not change if you use StrToFile with different 3 parameter when not erasing the file before.

Regards,

Martin


>Hi Martin,
>
>When the "encoding" attribute is ommited in the XML declaration, UTF-8 or UTF-16 is assumed. Exactly what depends on the BOM of the file.
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>STRTOFILE() saves the file ANSI encoded. In order to write the byte stream in UTF-8, try to use the STRCONV() function with the value "9" in the second parameter, as shown here:
>
>

>STRTOFILE(STRCONV(lcXml,9), 'Test.xml', 0)
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>The value "9" in the second parameter converts the string from DBCS to UTF-8
>
>Regards,