Reporting Services 2005 - CSV - ASCII - £(Pound Symbol)

Hi

We are having problems getting Reporting Services 2005 to export to an ASCII CSV file and correctly produce a £(GBP sign).

I have changed my report server .config file to read:

<Extension Name="CSV1" Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.CsvRenderer.CsvReport,Microsoft.ReportingServices.CsvRendering">
<OverrideNames>
<Name Language="en-UK">CSV - UTF-8</Name>
</OverrideNames>
<Configuration>
<DeviceInfo>
<Encoding>UTF-8</Encoding>
</DeviceInfo>
</Configuration>
</Extension>
<Extension Name="CSV2" Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.CsvRenderer.CsvReport,Microsoft.ReportingServices.CsvRendering">
<OverrideNames>
<Name Language="en-UK">CSV - UTF-7</Name>
</OverrideNames>
<Configuration>
<DeviceInfo>
<Encoding>UTF-7</Encoding>
</DeviceInfo>
</Configuration>
</Extension>
<Extension Name="CSV3" Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.CsvRenderer.CsvReport,Microsoft.ReportingServices.CsvRendering">
<OverrideNames>
<Name Language="en-UK">CSV - ASCII</Name>
</OverrideNames>
<Configuration>
<DeviceInfo>
<Encoding>ASCII</Encoding>
</DeviceInfo>
</Configuration>
</Extension>


And so far so good I get the three options to export to,

If I Export using the ASCII Rendering my pound signs come out as question marks (?) and subsequently loads into Excel as a general data type and is not sum-able.

If I Export using UTF-8 Rendering my pound signs come out as a weird character followed by a pound sign, again opened in excel loads as a General data type and is not summable.

If I export using UNICODE rendering, by file sizes are doublesd as you would expect, and then when you open in excel it is all bunched up in column 1, both un-acceptable.

Interestingly enough If I take the UTF-8 file I have and convert it to ASCII using Ultraedit, notepad or wordpad, everything works fine, the £ is correctly encoded, Excel loads it OK and it is summable, result, but I can not use get my end users to perform this "kludge" for an export.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Tim