ENCODING subcommand (GET DATA command)

You can use the optional ENCODING subcommand to specify the character encoding for the file. The subcommand name is followed by an equals sign (=) and one of the following values enclosed in quotes:

UTF8

The file is read in UTF-8 Unicode encoding. This is the default in Unicode mode (see SET command, Unicode subcommand) .

UTF16

The file is read in UTF-16 encoding. The endianness of the encoding is determined by the endianness of the operating system.

UTF16BE

The file is read as UTF-16, big endian.

UTF16LE

The file is read as UTF-16, little endian.

LOCALE

The file is read in the current locale code page encoding. This is the default in code page mode (see SET command, LOCALE subcommand).

The ENCODING subcommand is ignored if the file contains a UTF-8 or UTF-16 byte order mark, and the file is read according to the byte order mark. If the byte order mark indicates any other Unicode encoding, the file is not read and an error message is issued.