At 1:41 PM -0500 4/29/08, Steve Alex wrote: >Almost seems some setting on his machine in making at act like >UTS-16. Text Wrangler/BBedit reports it as US Roman/Mac. > >Any ideas? Did not check archives since I can't seem to find them. No mystery here. If you feed "write" with Unicode text (which is very likely to happen on modern systems), it will by default write UTF-16. If you don't want that, write: write theStuff to theFile as «class utf8» or write theStuff to theFile as string The default behavior is like if you wrote: write theStuff to theFile as Unicode text ("Unicode text" is AppleScript's nickname for UTF-16). Emmanuel