Special character in File to IDoc

Hi,
am working on file to Idoc scenario.
The data is populated as expected in to the segments but when i see the idoc in the receiving system the special characters are replaced by #
For ex
how LII u201Cexceeds industry benchmarks and defeats stereotypesu201D
is cming as LII #exceeds industry benchmarks and defeats stereotypes#
Any suggestions to display the special characters.

In your File Sender channel you can set the File Encoding Scheme of your choice. We had a similar case where special characters were seen as # . Once we changed the Encoding scheme to ISO-8859-1 it worked fine.
Refer to the below link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/EN/e3/94007075cae04f930cc4c034e411e1/content.htm
-Mala

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