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**TOANSI(string, codepage)**

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| **TOANSI** | Returns a string value converted to ANSI using the encoding of the Codepage parameter |
| //string// | A string constant or string expression |
| //codepage// | Codepage number used for encoding |

The **TOANSI** function returns a string value converted to ANSI using the encoding of the Codepage parameter.  The value of the first parameter can be a Unicode string, an ANSI string, or even a numeric. The second parameter allows for conversions to/from ANSI strings encoded for languages other than the one in use by the OS.

As a side effect, the TOANSI function also allows to convert ANSI and Unicode strings to a character sequence encoded in UTF-8 by passing value 65001 as the second parameter.

**Return Data Type:    String**

example:

idname string(40)

UTFid   string(40)

| CODE |

|  | idname = 'widget' |

|  | UTFid = TOANSI(idname, 65001)  ! encoded to UTF8 |

**See Also:**

[[tounicode.htm|TOUNICODE]]