Hi Barry,
Well, you've certainly caught my attention.
Whilst developing the find/replace engine for this application in conjunction with Joe Burke, in order to perform find and replace operations on text content which could potentially be interspersed with MText formatting codes, the engine performs a temporary substitution of all MText formatting codes with an obscure (and essentially arbitrary) character that we estimated would be rarely used in drawings.
This character just so happens to be ASCII character 208, the very character that you are trying to replace...
In my more recent development projects involving MText formatting code acrobatics (such as
here), I instead use the unprintable (and appropriately named) 'SUB' character "\032" (Octal 32 / ASCII 26).
Therefore, as a quick workaround, you could find/replace all instances of
(chr 208) with
(chr 26) and all instances of
"Ð" with
"\032" in the code for my Batch Find & Replace program - this should hopefully avoid the issue.
Lee