How Can I find out if the user has entered unicode characters in the username field like arabic or farsi????

I’ve struggled with something similar myself when using soap posts. XML fails with unicode characters in the soap post. I looked into this for a while and it appears that ASP doesn’t have an intrinsic function to convert unicode to ascii.

Does anyone know of an efficient function to convert large strings (5,000 chrs) from unicode to ascii? I may have 1 uni char in a 5,000 character post and it hoses the whole post + the fact its infuriating to the end user.

Earl
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