If you're limited to VFP 7 I apologize for having confused the issue by bringing up STRCONV(). <s>

So let's go back to the original question.

You ask why it's different on one machine -- presumably that would be because the user's oIE.document.defaultcharset is different on that machine although I don't know for sure.

Let's look at this a different way.

Do you need the data, as it sounds like you do, or do you need the browser open and visible, as you show it in your problem? Maybe you just need to look at a different way to receiving the page results, rather than using oIE.Document?

But without knowing what you are trying to do with the data once you get it, it's difficult to say <s>.

So far all I do know is that you want to use "$" on it.

But I'm guessing that something like READURL.PRG (google this or find it on MSDN) will do what you need.

Once you have the actual data, then as I said before you might want to use AT() or ATC() or additional VFP functions rather than $, but let's talk about that once you have the data you need <s>.

You can, additionally, show the document in IE if you really want to... I'm just not sure that's what you need.

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