Non-unicode FTP transfer of chinese characters

Hi,
We're trying to transfer data in SAP stored under .txt format using an abap program to FTP across to another external system. Our current SAP system is 4.6C is does not have unicode capability and uses code page to translate non-English texts. We have data that contains chinese characters and we would need to automatically transfer these data across to the external system via FTP.
The problem we face is that it appears that the text in the receiving end was unable to interpret the chinese characters and funny characters are appearing. How do we solve this problem ?

hi
as far as i know when working with korean characters
we came to know that OS level should support the language characters
usally if the text file is having ascii characters that is enough(no need of any kind of specifi language characters, korean or chinese or what ever it may be)
if u open this text file with proper OS installed in your system then it will appear correctly for you
otherwise it will show junk characters
so concentrate on the ascii values for the chinese characters in your system
if the target system supports chinese characters then this ascii characters should appear as chinese characters to them also

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