this will read utf-8 in a while converting it for windows 1252 codepage
Source:
WScript.Arguments(0) contain the full path of the utf-8 file to convert
Destination:
strData
Set objStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
objStream.CharSet = "utf-8"
objStream.Open
objStream.LoadFromFile(WScript.Arguments(0))
strData = objStream.ReadText()
objStream.Close
Set objStream = Nothing