convert to UTF-8

[Torbjörn Nordlindh]

Mark Schonewille Wrote

> If the original string is plain text, you can use uniEncode(theString)

uniEncode returns a double-byte unicode string, not UTF-8.

That is the reason for my use of the encode/decode combination.

I just wanted to be sure that I'm not doing something stupid, because  
that's what I usually do before I realize how simple it could have  
been done.

Torbjörn