Try responseXml or, in some cases, responseBody. Instead of responseText.
Converting implicitly stream to string can result in unpredicted output and
overhead. If you have a problem doing that, show us simplified example
please.

"Josh H" <anonymous@d...> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I have been searching all morning for the answer.  Here is my problem:
> 1. Generate a page in ASP with utf-8. Dynamic data comes from SQL server.
Page looks great displays Euro symbol fine.
> 2. Click a button on that page which makes an ASP page call to generate an
html document of the ASP page using serverxmlhttp(version 4) of the page in
step 1.
> 3. the responsetext property when displayed on the screen shows a ? mark
for the euro symbol now.  What went wrong?  IT was just displaying fine in
the ASP directly, but not after making the request using serverxmlhttp
object?
>
> I know the ASP page is displaying using utf-8 charset property in the meta
tag.  I know SQL server uses UCS-2, and serverxmlhttp uses utf-8 by default.
I am not sure what the problem is.  Any help?