How can I create text files with special characters in their filenames?

Value retrieved from the cell is already in Unicode.

You are on the right track with the FileSystemObject. As Morbo mentioned you can late bind this so no reference is set. The FSO has a CreateTextFile function which can be set in unicode so the characters will appear as '?' in VBA but will write correctly to the filename.

Note the second parameter of the CreateTextFile function specifies a unicode string for the filename. The following will do the trick for you.

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