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Asked: 2026-05-14T07:51:35+00:00

I’m trying to load a simple Xml file (encoded in UTF-8): <?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?>

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I’m trying to load a simple Xml file (encoded in UTF-8):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Test/>

And save it with MSXML in vbscript:

Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.6.0")

xmlDoc.Load("C:\test.xml")

xmlDoc.Save "C:\test.xml"

The problem is, MSXML saves file in ANSI instead of UTF-8 (despite the original file being encoded in UTF-8).

The MSDN docs for MSXML says that save() will write the file in whatever encoding the XML is defined in:

Character encoding is based on the encoding attribute in the XML declaration, such as . When no encoding attribute is specified, the default setting is UTF-8.

But this is clearly not working at least on my machine.

How can MSXML save in UTF-8?

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  1. Editorial Team

    There isn’t any non-ANSI text in your XML file, so it will be identical whether UTF-8 or ASCII encoded. In my tests, after adding non-ASCII text to test.xml, MSXML always saves in UTF-8 encoding and also writes the BOM if there was one to begin with.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

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