problems with special characters

Question

Hi I have been having problems with recieving files/streams with some special characters such as the swedish

Answer 1

Ha ha hah

There is a problem with characters also in the forum i see maybe I should have included the code instead DOH!

public static String downLoad(String filename){ 
  
        try {
            inS = ftp.downloadStream(filename);
            int ch = 0;
            while ((ch = inS.read()) != -1) {
                if (ch < -1 ) {
                if (ch == -27){sb.append("

Answer 2

Actually the problem is with the character encoding of the reader for the data-channel. You can change this using FTPConnection.DataEncoding. Try setting it to Encoding.GetEncoding("Windows-1252") or Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1"). If you get the encoding right then you shouldn't need to do the manual translation that you are doing in the code you posted.

- Hans (EnterpriseDT)