Unicode changes Multibye character problem

Hello,
We have made our production system unicode compliant. We have item master interface which extract data from material master. After unicode compliant, description fields length is increased and it affected our extract. There is not any change in description field before or after unicode changes. Given below three lines, First two lines is before unicode compliant, which is correct and third is after unicode compliant. You can clearly see the all the other fields after description has been moved by 2 characters. We want extract should generated as mentioned in first two lines.
MC01666-PT campaÃ±a redencion PAE re 0.020 31.0806030 9999 ZMPL 2 20060209 18
MC01666-PT campaÃ±a redencion PAE re 0.020 31.0806030 9999 ZMPL 2 20060209 18 MC01666-PT campaÃÂ±a redencion PAE re 0.020 31.0806030 9999 ZMPL 2 20060209 18
We have done following changes to make program unicode compliant. But this seems to be not working.
open dataset wm_datasetname for output in text mode encoding default.
Please advise. It's urgent.
Thanks

Hi Darshil...
Yes. i have tried ENCODING DEFAULT / ENCODING NON-UNICODE / ENCODING UTF-8. But it is not working,
By the way, these non-english characters are french.
Thanks
Yogesh

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