SFTP Writing utf-8 vs. ANSI Text Files

Demonstrates how to specify the charset, such as utf-8, ANSI, windows-1250, iso-8859-1, Shift_JIS, etc., when writing text files. See the List of Charsets for all supported charsets.

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#include <C_CkSFtp.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkSFtp sftp;
    BOOL success;
    long port;
    const char * hostname;
    const char * handle;

    //  Important: It is helpful to send the contents of the
    //  sftp.LastErrorText property when requesting support.

    sftp = CkSFtp_Create();

    //  Any string automatically begins a fully-functional 30-day trial.

    success = CkSFtp_UnlockComponent(sftp,"Anything for 30-day trial");
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkSFtp_lastErrorText(sftp));
        return;
    }

    //  Set some timeouts, in milliseconds:
    CkSFtp_putConnectTimeoutMs(sftp,5000);
    CkSFtp_putIdleTimeoutMs(sftp,15000);

    //  Connect to the SSH server.
    //  The standard SSH port = 22
    //  The hostname may be a hostname or IP address.

    hostname = "192.168.1.108";
    port = 22;
    success = CkSFtp_Connect(sftp,hostname,port);
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkSFtp_lastErrorText(sftp));
        return;
    }

    //  Authenticate with the SSH server.  Chilkat SFTP supports
    //  both password-based authenication as well as public-key
    //  authentication.  This example uses password authenication.
    success = CkSFtp_AuthenticatePw(sftp,"myLogin","myPassword");
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkSFtp_lastErrorText(sftp));
        return;
    }

    //  After authenticating, the SFTP subsystem must be initialized:
    success = CkSFtp_InitializeSftp(sftp);
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkSFtp_lastErrorText(sftp));
        return;
    }

    //  Open a file on the server for writing.
    //  "createTruncate" means that a new file is created; if the file already exists, it is opened and truncated.

    handle = CkSFtp_openFile(sftp,"utf8_sample.txt","writeOnly","createTruncate");
    if (handle == 0 ) {
        printf("%s\n",CkSFtp_lastErrorText(sftp));
        return;
    }

    //  Write a single utf-8 character to the file - a lowercase ü
    //  A "ü" in utf-8 is represented by 2 bytes:  0xC3 0xBC
    //  The following call to WriteFileText writes 2 bytes (0xC3 0xBC)
    //  to the file:
    success = CkSFtp_WriteFileText(sftp,handle,"utf-8","ü");
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkSFtp_lastErrorText(sftp));
        return;
    }

    //  Close the file.
    success = CkSFtp_CloseHandle(sftp,handle);
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkSFtp_lastErrorText(sftp));
        return;
    }

    //  Let's write the same "ü" character using windows-1252
    //  (which is the ANSI charset for Western-European languages)
    handle = CkSFtp_openFile(sftp,"windows1252_sample.txt","writeOnly","createTruncate");
    if (handle == 0 ) {
        printf("%s\n",CkSFtp_lastErrorText(sftp));
        return;
    }

    //  Write a single windows-1252 character to the file - a lowercase ü
    //  A "ü" in windows-1252 is represented by 1 byte:  0xFC
    //  The following call to WriteFileText writes 1 byte (0xFC)
    //  to the file:
    success = CkSFtp_WriteFileText(sftp,handle,"windows-1252","ü");
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkSFtp_lastErrorText(sftp));
        return;
    }

    //  Close the file.
    success = CkSFtp_CloseHandle(sftp,handle);
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkSFtp_lastErrorText(sftp));
        return;
    }

    printf("Success.\n");

    CkSFtp_Dispose(sftp);

    }