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    <p><em>Demonstration of my problem</em></p> <ul> <li>Open a new Excel workbook and save these symbols 設計師協會 to cell [A1]</li> <li>insert the following VBA code somewhere in the editor (<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F11</kbd>)</li> <li>execute it line per line (<kbd>F8</kbd>)</li> </ul> <pre>Sub test() strCRLF = StrConv(vbCrLf, vbUnicode) strSpecialchars = StrConv(Cells(1, 1), vbUnicode) strFilename = "c:\test.txt" Open strFilename For Output As #1 Print #1, strSpecialchars & strCRLF; Close #1 End Sub</pre> <p>You will get a textfile which contains the chinese characters from [A1]. This proofs that VBA is able to handle unicode characters if you know the trick with adding <code>StrConv(vbCrLf, vbUnicode) </code></p> <p>Now try the same for <code>strFilename = "C:\" &amp; strSpecialchars &amp; ".txt"</code>. You will get an error that you can't create a file with this filename. Of course you can't use the same trick adding a new line since its a filename.</p> <p>How can I create text files with special characters in their filenames using VBA?<br> Is there a work-around or am I doing something wrong?</p> <p><strong>Note</strong></p> <ul> <li>I'm using Windows 7 x64. I'm able to create text files with special characters manually</li> <li>I found a <a href="http://www.excelforum.com/excel-programming-vba-macros/394470-write-line-problem-when-writing-simplified-chinese-characters.html?p=1060414&amp;viewfull=1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">second method using FileSystemObject</a>. But I hope I could avoid setting a reference <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3233203/how-do-i-use-filesystemobject-in-vba">to the VB script run-time library</a></li> </ul>
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    1. COYou don't absolutely have to set a reference (although I don't know why that's such a problem). You can use late binding without a reference :- Dim FSO as Object {newline} Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") - but you lose out on all the Intellisense and predefined constants. Are you sure this method would help though ? I still get a bad filename error.
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