text file encoding from Excel 2000

[madfiddler]

I'm writing a text file from a module in Excel 2000

It's quite simple and using "Open" and "Print #" statements

The file produced appears to have the byte order mark for little-endian
UTF-16 (i.e. two bytes hex FF FE)

I have two questions relating to this

1) is there any way I can control the encoding used when using "Print #" ?
2) will the little-endian UTF-16 encoding used be the same for all Windows
locales?


cheers
mf