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bad4u
I guess you are right, for western european locales there is no way to display cyrillic characters within non-unicode applications.

Ooops, looks like I've missed something yesterday, just tried again this example, everything works as it's supposed to be, no decoding within Getpage..., then I'll probably just add something similar to ConvertToASCII, e.g. ConvertTo1251

I didn't have much time to play with this yesterday, will double check and let you know. Basicaly, what I've tryed to do:

var
Page:TStringList;
Value:string;

begin
Page :=TStringList.Create;
Value:=Getpage('http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095574/');
Page.Text:=Value;
Page.SaveToFile('1.html ...

Hi Antoine,

Of course no universal solution can be made unless native Unicode support is presented by AMC itself. Sure, any type of preprocessing will currently work only for some particular locale and fail for others. And sure, its not going to be a difficult task to convert Russian ...

You have an example of an IMDB page with unicode characters? As far as I know they only use iso-8859-1. And anyway AMC does not handle unicode characters :??:

I guess they use it sometimes in 'Also Known As' section for foreign language films. For example, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095574/ or ...