Most likely the name is returned as Unicode. You can use STRCONV(,6) to convert it into ANSI.

>I running a query that returns a result set that have the database name,date/time and backup location of each database on the sql server that has been backed up. It works great, but in the backup location, it returns a field that on the screen looks great and readable, but when it prints, it has extra spaces between each letter:
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>screen:  d:\sqldata\ctore.bak
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>print: d : \ s q l d a t a \ c t o r e . b a k
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>Anybody know what causes that and a way to get rid of that behavior. It's like it double-byte or something.
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