Firefox and ASCII

[yton]

Greetings,

Run($ff)
_FFConnect()
_FFOpenURL("domain.com")
$a = _FFXpath("//title", "text")

this script launches firefox (where $ff is the path to certain profile), opens domain.com with non-english content and fetches <title></title> tag contents

the thing is that i get $a data (string or array - doesn't matter) as ASCII and cannot convert it neither to ANSI nor to UTF-8

i've tried every ASCII-dealing function from the help file - zero results

could you please help me?

I need to get $a in readable ANSI / UTF-8 format

thanks,