File encoding altered by FTP transfer

Question

A user has used FTP to transfer some HTML files to our webserver. These HTML files contain characters such as:

‘ ’

which aren't properly encoded in HTML markup. When they've been uploaded, the website displays the � character (which can sometimes happen), but even if I open the HTML file in gedit directly on the server, the same encoding problem is there.

Any ideas on why this would happen?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 03 '10 at 16:13

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It might help to set your transfer mode to "binary"

answered Mar 03 '10 at 16:13

Dennis Williamson

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Thanks, I wasn't aware of the different FTP transfer modes. – Mar 04 '10 at 10:38

File encoding altered by FTP transfer

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