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Foreign Characters from Excel VBA Web QueryTable Translations

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After completing an Excel2007 VBA modified querytable to http://translate.reference.com/ I get results which are good and results that are not seemingly usable. The good results are those that can be expressed in standard English characters. Any accented characters seem to be returned with some kind of two character codes. Any completely foreign set (Greek, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, etc.) comes back as <I am not sure what>.
Please see attached file.
My question is - how to go from the character codes returned to the appropriate foreign equivalent - as in looking like the manually copy/pasted results in Column D.
Regards
Brian QueryTableTranslate.xls

jjafferr

Hi

If you can click on the "copy to clipboard", then paste the translation to your excel sheet.

If you use the webbrowser object like this:
Private web As WebBrowser

then I think that button is number 365, and you can click it like this:
web.Document.all(365).click

jaffer

Robberbaron (robr)

the query is returning a UniCode character, which is 2 bytes wide.

can you rewrite as an ADo connection, then use CHRW to write out the data ?

many VBA functions dont support unicode by default.

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Fantasmagorical! That's exactly it!
ThanQ
Regards
Brian