Character encoding sending EDIFACT via ftp adapter

Hi,
we are about to start sending EDIFACT invoices to a customer and are having trouble with national characters in the payload.
The customer expects ISO-8859-1 encoding and as far as I can tell B2B seem to generate the message in UTF-8.
I have tried to specify Encoding ISO-8859-1 on the output channel specification and have redeployed the agreement,
but it does not make any difference.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Mikael

This will mean that all incoming and outgoing messages will be in ISO-8859-1Yes, entire B2B processing will be done in the specified encoding.
Is there no way to specify this on agreement or possibly partner level?Unfortunately, there is no other way to specify encoding as of now. You may consider filing an enhancement request with Oracle Support and Oracle B2B prod dev may address this issue on priority if it is major blocker for you.
Regards,
Anuj

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