Regarding download to text file

Question

Dear ABAP Gurus,
I have requirement to download internal table to text file and put it on a strorade via ftp.
The problem is, when i try to write long text into the file, i cannot write euro currency character 'u20AC', the 'u20AC' replaced by other character like 'ä.¬'
But if I download to xls file (using GUI_DOWNLOAD to local storage), it works fine.
Is there any solution on this matter?
Are there other character that would replaced by characters just like euro currency character?
Thanks in advance.
Rgds.
-g-

Answer 1

Try this :
- cl_abap_char_utilities=>horizontal_tab  is tab delimited, it's depent what is your separator
- itab is your internal table, below is just sample
DATA :  filenamex TYPE char50,
DATA : l_string TYPE string.
filenamex = '/itf/zsmart/test.txt
  OPEN DATASET filenamex FOR INPUT IN TEXT MODE
               ENCODING DEFAULT.
  IF sy-subrc = 0.
    DO.
      CLEAR : l_string.
      READ DATASET filenamex INTO l_string.
      IF sy-subrc NE 0.
        EXIT.
      ELSE.
        SPLIT l_string AT cl_abap_char_utilities=>horizontal_tab
        INTO itab-key itab-otyp itab-sorg itab-dchl itab-div itab-soff
             itab-cust itab-pon itab-podt itab-docdt itab-pymtr
             itab-inco1 itab-inco2 itab-matnr itab-qty itab-batch
             itab-plant itab-sloc itab-shppt itab-promo itab-sprom
             itab-mpgrp itab-obtyp itab-objno.
        APPEND itab.
        CLEAR itab.
      ENDIF.
    ENDDO.
  ELSE.
    MESSAGE e000(zelog) WITH 'Error Reading File'.
  ENDIF.