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[Hoff]

See this thread, among others:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Networking/newbie-having-issues-with-sftp-to-VMS-8-3/m-p/4631165#M9119

Use Wordpad for testing file readability directly on Windows.

Avoid Notepad entirely. Again, do not use Notepad.

Use MS-DOS or the Unix-compatible stream formats when exporting.

Avoid RTF formats.

US ASCII only.

Avoid UTF-8 and any Unicode or other characters.

For testing, ftp ASCII-mode transfers.

You may well be able to use one of the tools over in that thread, or various CONVERT commands, but getting rid of UTF-8 can be interesting.

There's a libxml2 port for VMS here:

http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1626

A GNU gettext port is here:

ftp://ftp.encompasserve.org/gnv/

VMS character encodings and links to info on Unicode:

http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/403