FTP Issue with Non ascii character

I have one file .dat file on windows server containg the following text
"B�rki"

Now When I am using FTP (get) command from UNIX server the text is appering is as "Bürki"

I want to preserve the text in the file on UNIX server as it is in source file.

Could you please suggest some command or shell script or logic to how to go about it?

Thanks ,
Bhushan

Have you tried changing your FTP session to use binary mode instead of the default ASCII mode? Should be able to change it by typing the word 'binary' while in the FTP session.

FTP is known to have the annoying property of mangling binary files by default. Before you retrieve the file, send the 'binary' command to force FTP not to do any translation.