How to process special characters in vbscript

I am writing a find and replace workflow and it needs to be able to find special characters, one of which is a y with two dots above it.

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+00FF

I currently use a MACRO in Notepad++ to do this find and replace, but I need a bit more automation in this process.

The character code in Notepad++ shows &#x00FF

'Find and Replace 
Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2

Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\TEST\" & JobNo & " " & strfolder & "\CustomerOriginals\" & FN, ForReading)

strText = objFile.ReadAll
objFile.Close
strText = Replace(strText, ChrW(00FF), "")


Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\TEST\" & JobNo & " " & strfolder & "\CustomerOriginals\" & FN, ForWriting)
objFile.WriteLine strText

objFile.Close

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You can use ADO to read and write UTF-8 files in VBScript, as per other answers on SO:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/4127011/15764378

https://stackoverflow.com/a/13855268/15764378

https://stackoverflow.com/a/15230319/15764378

But VBScript will handle UTF-8 for a simple read, replace, write as per this question, as long as the script itself is saved as UTF-8. Example:

ReplaceChar.vbs

Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
FP = "C:\Test\Test.txt"
Text = oFSO.OpenTextFile(FP,ForReading).ReadAll
Text = Replace(Text, "ÿ", "")
Text = Replace(Text, "🙂", "👍")
oFSO.OpenTextFile(FP,ForWriting).Write(Text)

You may also want to consider using PowerShell to do the character replacement. Here's an example:

ReplaceChar.ps1

$FP = 'C:\Test\Test.txt'
$Text = Get-Content -Path $FP
$Text = $Text -replace 'ÿ', ''
Set-Content -Path $FP -Value $Text