The String function used to format a string does not have an encoding argument to allow you to specify the encoding of the resulting string. As a result, the string returned can contain garbage characters.
To work around this issue, convert the string to a blob and then back to a string using the encoding parameters provided in the Blob and String conversion functions:
ls_temp = String(long, "address" ) // format string lb_blob = blob(ls_temp, EncodingUTF16LE!) ls_result = string(lb_blob, EncodingANSI!) // convert // to string
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