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I have a text file created on a Windows machine, the page coding used on the file is 1252

This file is then ftp'd to an iSeries machine for processing

As far as I can see, it appears on the iSeries. It has a CCSID of 037.

Sometimes this file contains French characters (e.g. é). When this happens, the FTP will fail with a truncation error as the french character gets converted to some extra junk: �.

The file is fixed block so the line does get truncated due to the one character turning into 3.

I can convert the French characters to characters without the accents before sending but would prefer to keep everything intact. So is there a way to retain them and send the file over properly?

I'm very green on iSeries, mainly a Windows guy.

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What you are dealing with is that Windows-1252 usually claims to be ISO-8859-1 Latin-1, but it really isn't. There is a small section - like sixteen code points or so - that Microsoft has decided to use for characters like typographic quotation marks (aka. "smart quotes") instead.

My best guess is that your transfer software (either by configuration or developer's decision) assumes that Win-1252 is equal to ISO-8859-1. Fix that (if possible) and you fix the problem.

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