When you recieve ascII-coded strings with non-latin symbols (asc > 128) you can not directly display it as a text (since IWS uses UTF16). So it may be done by convert function like this one:
Function ConvStr(s) Dim i, h, c Dim res res = "" For i = 1 To Len(s) c = Mid(s, i,1) h = AscW(Mid(s, i,1)) If (h>&hC0) Then c = ChrW(&h0410 +(h-&hC0)) End If res = res + c Next ConvStr = res End Function