Export sheet as UTF-8 CSV file (using Excel-VBA)

**CaptainProg** · October 2nd, 2012

I would like to export a file I have created in UTF-8 CSV using VBA. From searching message boards, I have found the following code that converts a file to UTF-8 (from this thread):

VB:

Sub SaveAsUTF8() 
     
    Dim fsT, tFileToOpen, tFileToSave As String 
     
    tFileToOpen = InputBox("Enter the name and location of the file to convert" & vbCrLf & "With full path and filename ie. C:\MyFolder\ConvertMe.Txt") 
    tFileToSave = InputBox("Enter the name and location of the file to save" & vbCrLf & "With full path and filename ie. C:\MyFolder\SavedAsUTF8.Txt") 
     
    tFileToOpenPath = tFileToOpen 
    tFileToSavePath = tFileToSave 
     
Set fsT = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream"): 'Create Stream object
fsT.Type = 2: 'Specify stream type – we want To save text/string data.
fsT.Charset = "utf-8": 'Specify charset For the source text data.
     
fsT.Open: 'Open the stream
fsT.LoadFromFile tFileToOpenPath: 'And write the file to the object stream
     
fsT.SaveToFile tFileToSavePath, 2: 'Save the data to the named path
     
End Sub

However, this code only converts a non-UTF-8 file to UTF-8. If I were to save my file in non-UTF-8 and then convert it to UTF-8, it would have already lost all the special characters it contained, thus rendering the process pointless!

What I'm looking to do is save an open file in UTF-8 (CSV). Is there any way of doing this with VBA?

Edit: I have now asked this question on Stack Overflow as well, due to lack of response here.