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Mayayana,

>    That's not relevant. It's only internal

But its that "only internal" what VBS/IE is working with, and why the ANSI 
only output method throws up its hands when you ask it to write such content 
to file. ...

> for i = 1 to len(s)
> s2 = s2 & CStr(Asc(Mid(s, i, 1)))
> next

Suggestion: Check what the output of that CStr is in every loop-step there. 
Provide it the problem char plus a few before and after and see what the 
"s2" strings becomes.

You might well see that the "s2" builds normally upto the problem char, and 
than disappears altogether (as far as I remember adding a null to a string 
doesn't work that well).   Also try to see what you get when you replace 
that CStr( with "|" & hex(

> IE has apparently gone unicode-16 with it.

Thats what I said, VBS/IE internally uses wide-character. :-)

>   Negative numbers for &#? I've never seen it.

No, negative numbers when you AscW a character.

> As you probably know, when you ask IE for
> DOM data you get the IE version.

No, I didn't.  I've not used IE for quite a while now, and have never 
bothered to look at its DOM.

But in that case, why don't you try to WriteFile that converted string 
/before/ you give it to IE ?  You know, trying to eliminate possible problem 
points.    If you're right the resulting file should be OK.  But if that 
file than again (still) is empty than the problem lies elsewhere ...

> That one 9660 seems to infect the whole thing.

Or any of the gazillion other multi-byte characters.    Like forward and 
backward single and double quotes, dashes of different lengths, a triplet of 
dots, etc.

I often save, using FireFox, webpages (documentation) to file.  Quite a few 
of them show, when loaded into an ANSI-only editor, funny groups of symbols 
sprinkled throut the text.   Yes, those multi-byte characters.    In other 
words, delivering webpages as multi-byte (as opposed to ANSI with html 
entities or encodings for the "special" characters) is not uncommon at all.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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Textstream Write "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-04-29 08:55 -0400
  Re: Textstream Write JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-04-30 17:45 +0700
    Re: Textstream Write "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-04-30 13:21 +0200
  Re: Textstream Write "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-04-30 08:51 -0400
    Re: Textstream Write "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-04-30 18:22 +0200
      Re: Textstream Write "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-04-30 13:01 -0400
        Re: Textstream Write "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-04-30 21:37 +0200
          Re: Textstream Write "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-04-30 17:06 -0400
            Re: Textstream Write "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-05-01 10:01 +0200
              Re: Textstream Write "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-05-01 08:37 -0400
                Re: Textstream Write "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-05-01 16:00 +0200
                Re: Textstream Write "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-05-01 16:12 +0200
                Re: Textstream Write "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-05-01 10:47 -0400
                Re: Textstream Write "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-05-01 19:09 +0200
  Re: Textstream Write "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-05-04 15:26 -0400
    Re: Textstream Write JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-05-05 20:15 +0700
      Re: Textstream Write "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-05-05 10:19 -0400

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