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Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ?

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"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> wrote

| As for the conversion itself ?   I do not really want to have it converted
| to ASCII, but just to a format which will be acceptable to Write /
| WriteLine, allowing me to write an exact copy of what is retrieved from 
the
| website to file.

   I don't understand why it's not working. As long as
there are no nulls it should be writable. WSH is not
really writing ASCII. It's writing ANSI. As far as I know
it doesn't recognize UTF-8, so I would think it should
write the string normally as ANSI in accord with your
codepage.

  Either way, if you write UTF-8 to disk you'll need
to read it as UTF-8. But I don't find any problem
writing high characters. If I write the UTF-8 marker,
239-187-191 in a string it works. If I write it at
the front of a string it disappears when opened in
notepad, as expected. In both cases it writes fine.

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WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 14:14 +0200
  Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 09:06 -0400
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 16:44 +0200
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 18:50 -0400
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 11:39 +0200
          Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-19 09:22 -0400
            Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 17:27 +0200
              Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-19 13:49 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-20 17:56 +0200
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-20 13:24 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? Ulrich Möller <knobbi38@arcor.de> - 2017-04-21 01:05 +0200
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-20 21:42 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-21 10:11 +0200
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-21 09:23 +0200
  Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 09:57 -0400
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 17:20 +0200
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 14:27 -0400
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 22:15 +0200
          Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 18:30 -0400
            Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 11:09 +0200
              Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-19 09:23 -0400
              Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-19 09:59 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 17:41 +0200
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-18 11:58 -0400
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-26 09:56 -0400
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-26 16:35 +0200
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-26 10:44 -0400
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-26 11:07 -0400
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-26 16:29 -0400
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-26 21:26 -0400
          Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-26 23:28 -0400
            Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 01:11 -0400
              Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 09:28 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 15:22 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 19:16 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:08 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:11 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:17 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:21 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 22:37 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 00:01 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 01:19 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 01:46 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 12:36 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-29 19:59 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 20:18 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 23:50 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 19:29 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:04 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 22:25 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:31 -0400
  Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? Ulrich Möller <knobbi38@arcor.de> - 2017-04-18 19:20 +0200
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 19:58 +0200
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? Ulrich Möller <knobbi38@arcor.de> - 2017-04-19 14:59 +0200
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 16:46 +0200

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