From what Mr Google suggests, URI and URL can’t have Unicode characters in them, you have to UTF-8 encodes things. Try: put "http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/spencerdata/index.lc?A=index&thetongue= <http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/spencerdata/index.lc?A=index&thetongue=>" & uniEncode(thelanguage,”UTF8”) into tURL put URL tURL into temp