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Hello,

I have large xml files with chinese characters on a windows box and they need to be FTP'd to UNIX box. When I ftp the file, the chinese text converts to junk characters.

I tried changing my setting on putty to UTF-8, but still cannot view the correct text. Is there something I need to do when I transfer files from windows to unix?

FYI. my locale command returns

LANG=
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=

Thanks

Make sure you send them in binary mode. FTP probably still defaults to ASCII mode on Windows and this likely breaks your character encoding.

Thanks for your response. I tried sending the files in binary mode, but still I cannot view the correct characters. I also ran the iconv -f ASCII -t UTF-8 Reg_test.xml > utf.xml & iconv -f BIN -t UTF-8 Reg_test.xml > utf.xml but still no change.

Having the C locale selected might defeat any attempt to visualize anything non 7 bit ascii.

You should select a locale suitable for your character encoding.

Thanks again, I changed the locale to utf8, but still cannot figure out the issue.

LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=