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Hi,

I have a flat file containing Japanese(Kanji) characters.When I open it in my desktop it still shows up in Kanji characters. However when I FTP the file to Unix server , the kanji characters are lost and they turn into Junk characters. Can anyone suggest ways in how I can retain the Kanji characters in the UNIX server as well.I have tried ftp>Bin.....but it doesnt work out. Please help


Thanks
Papiya

I think the problem is that the kanji characters are stored in different integer
notation on one box to the next.

This phenomenon occurs a lot in japanese email, and i think, is called "gojimake".

The solution is nasty:

You must translate the binary values on the computer where the kanji look correct,
into their ASCII numeric characters. ( ie. 00010010101 into "27182" )

This could be done using a C program.

Then, within html, you can get the Japanese characters by specifying:

<meta charset='x-euc-jp' >

in your html at the top....
and then accessing the spelled out numbers like:

&27182;

This is the preferred method -- as this is not confused between machines
with different binary integer encoding.

Oh, and alternative solution:

The names of the different internal integer formats are Big and Little Endian notation.

In the 4 bytes that make up an integer, the first 2
represent the high bits in one notation -- and the low bits in the other.

You could write a C program to read the file into a long integer,
swap the high and low order bytes, print it out in ASCII and there you go.

Let me know if you need more help than this.