Still having a few problems: Using this function: setprop view_Utf8 someUtf8 put the text_Field of me into textField put uniencode(someUtf8, "UTF8") into someU16 set the unicodetext of textField to someU16 end view_Utf8 and getting UTF8 from the XML file (an assumption), I get results lik: gustavb\u00f6hm which should be a nice german name :)