File Encoding "Unicode" in PI to Legacy

HI ,
We have a Scenario where we need to Push the File with the Encoding as " Unicode" .
We tried all the encoding UTF-8,UTF-16,UTF-16BE etc..in the Recever File Channel but the end FTP server is getting only ANSI format.
Did any one has come accross with this problem. Please let me know.
Thanks
Praveen Kalwa

Hi
Have you used XML ANONYMIZER BEAN
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/45/d169186a29570ae10000000a114a6b/content.htm
Check which other character sets are supported in the documentation for your Java runtime implementation.
Regards
Ninad

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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