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VBScript does delivers an "Illegal Argument" message when trying to write the text shown below to file using the following code. If I change resultStr to some test text, it works. What could be the problem?

Set resFile = fs.CreateTextfile(resFilePath, true)
resFile.write resultStr
resFile.close

Contents of resultStr:

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Your string looks like it contains non-ASCII characters. You need to pass an extra True argument to CreateTextfile to open the text file using a Unicode encoding (probably UTF-16 on Windows).

If you want to write UTF-8 to the file, see Writing UTF8 text to file.

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