VBA - Convert string to UNICODE

Question

I need to convert the string HTML from a mix of Cyrillic and Latin symbols to UNICODE.

I tried the following:

Public HTML As String
    Sub HTMLsearc         


        

Answer 1

My production order data comes from many countries. this is the only vba function I could find that really works.

Private Const CP_UTF8 = 65001

Private Declare Function MultiByteToWideChar Lib "kernel32" ( _
   ByVal CodePage As Long, ByVal dwFlags As Long, _
   ByVal lpMultiByteStr As Long, ByVal cchMultiByte As Long, _
   ByVal lpWideCharStr As Long, ByVal cchWideChar As Long) As Long


Public Function sUTF8ToUni(bySrc() As Byte) As String
   ' Converts a UTF-8 byte array to a Unicode string
   Dim lBytes As Long, lNC As Long, lRet As Long

   lBytes = UBound(bySrc) - LBound(bySrc) + 1
   lNC = lBytes
   sUTF8ToUni = String$(lNC, Chr(0))
   lRet = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, VarPtr(bySrc(LBound(bySrc))), lBytes, StrPtr(sUTF8ToUni), lNC)
   sUTF8ToUni = Left$(sUTF8ToUni, lRet)
End Function

Example Usage:

Dim sHTML As String
Dim bHTML() As Byte
bHTML = GetHTML("http://yoururlhere/myorderdata.php")
sHTML = sUTF8ToUni(bHTML)
sHTML = Mid(sHTML, 2)  'strip off Byte Order Mark: EF BB BF