I am using Smallworld 4.22 translating to Microstation V8i with FME version 2014sp4 The font in Smallworld is an old font Hershey-Roman-Narrow. I am adding a Character 127 which is the Degree symbol (0176 in Arial) . I have in the past been able to use the StringReplacer to replace a special character but this time it is not working. I am guessing that I am just doing it incorrectly. When I print out the line string in my Smallworld buffer is prints out as <delete> if I add a write statement in the code as it is generating the text if writes ^?. In the code I am adding the degree symbol as 127.as_charater() When I run the translation with or without the string replacer in the data inspector shows it as what appears to be a PIPE ( | ) character. In Microstation it shows as a Diamond with a question mark in it.

I guess what I am needing is any help with StringReplacer and special characters.