Strange Characters...

[John Dixon]

Now that we have unicode that 'just works' ?! 

CAn someone tell me what I am doing wrong, or even better what to do now as what used to work for me doesn't anymore...:-(  Using the lines below, I make a request to a datbase through an .lc script...The result is returned to temp..

   put "http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/spencerdata/index.lc?A=index&thetongue=" & thelanguage into tURL
   put URL tURL into temp

If there are any accents and other strange characters then garbage is returned.... Can someone tell me what to do ?