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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use chilkat();

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

$sftp = new chilkat::CkSFtp();

#  Any string automatically begins a fully-functional 30-day trial.
$success = $sftp->UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $sftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  Set some timeouts, in milliseconds:
$sftp->put_ConnectTimeoutMs(5000);
$sftp->put_IdleTimeoutMs(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 = $sftp->Connect($hostname,$port);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $sftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  Authenticate with the SSH server.  Chilkat SFTP supports
#  both password-based authenication as well as public-key
#  authentication.  This example uses password authenication.
$success = $sftp->AuthenticatePw("myLogin","myPassword");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $sftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  After authenticating, the SFTP subsystem must be initialized:
$success = $sftp->InitializeSftp();
if ($success != 1) {
    print $sftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  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 = $sftp->openFile("utf8_sample.txt","writeOnly","createTruncate");
if ($handle eq null ) {
    print $sftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  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 = $sftp->WriteFileText($handle,"utf-8","ü");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $sftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  Close the file.
$success = $sftp->CloseHandle($handle);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $sftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  Let's write the same "ü" character using windows-1252
#  (which is the ANSI charset for Western-European languages)
$handle = $sftp->openFile("windows1252_sample.txt","writeOnly","createTruncate");
if ($handle eq null ) {
    print $sftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  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 = $sftp->WriteFileText($handle,"windows-1252","ü");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $sftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  Close the file.
$success = $sftp->CloseHandle($handle);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $sftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

print "Success." . "\n";