That looks like a good one. I'll give the DetectCharset a shot. Just in case, anyone else know of a way to do it? -----Original Message----- From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Taz Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 4:38 PM To: thelist at lists.evolt.org Subject: RE: [thelist] Charsets, finding them in a string... -- DetectCharset( inText as Variant ) As String Tries to detect the charset by examining the character data. This method is more accurate when more data is available to examine, but is never 100% accurate. --