File adapter, File encoding national characters

Hi,
I have a problem with national characters (ÅÄÖ) when sending (receiver adapter) files with the fileadapter.
When i specify Transfere mode = Binary and File Type = Binary everything works fine but when i use Transfere mode =+ Text+ the national characters gets converted to "?". I have tried to set File Type = text and tryed File Encoding with UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 without success.
Please help!
Regards
Claes

Hi,
Check this out: <a href="https://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/502991a2-45d9-2910-d99f-8aba5d79fb42">How To Work with Character Encodings in Process Integration</a>
Regards,
Jakub

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>
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