Code page conversions for the data connection

For the transfer of data on the data connection, FTP supports:
  • All single-byte conversions available through iconv. For example, iconv supports conversions between IBM®-1047 and IBM-850, so conversions between IBM-1047 and IBM-850 are available for data transfer.
  • UNICODE conversions available through iconv: UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE, and UTF-16LE for network transfer, and UTF-8 and UTF-16 for file storage.
  • Multibyte conversions for the Chinese standard GB18030 using code page IBM-5488 with code page IBM-1388 or UTF-8, as well as certain double-byte character set (DBCS) code page pairs that are equivalent to supported DBCS languages.
  • Both single-byte and double-byte data conversions are supported with the translate tables provided with TCP/IP or generated by the CONVXLAT utility.
Parent topic: FTP code page conversion