Curious characters in Filename

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hkrackau

Hello,
connecting to a netcup server FreeFileSync cannot read filenames containing German Umlaut as äöüÄÖÜß properly. Is there a way to configure character sets?
If YES, where?
If NO: could it be a new feature to select from various character sets?
/Hans
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Zenju

What error message are you seeing exactly, and what is the FEAT response of the FTP server?
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hkrackau

I see the filenames with a special character at the places of German Umlaut (äöüÄÖÜß).
The special character looks like a black diamond with a white question mark in it.
Using Filezilla or WinSCP I have to switch UTF-8 to ON in order to see the correct German Umlaut characters.
I was not able to get a FEAT response from the server.
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Zenju

What response did you get from the server when you issued FEAT?
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hkrackau

I got "-: line 6: feat: command not found", not knowing whether I issued that command right.
I used the command box of WinSCP and just typed FEAT to the command line. I'm afraid, that was not the right way. Please instruct how to make it.
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Zenju

I don't know how this works with WinSCP. With FileZilla it's right-click, and issue "custom command".
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hkrackau

Finally ...
Here is the output of FEAT:
Antwort: 211-Features:
Antwort: AUTH TLS
Antwort: CCC
Antwort: CLNT
Antwort: EPRT
Antwort: EPSV
Antwort: HOST
Antwort: LANG en-US*
Antwort: MDTM
Antwort: MFF modify;UNIX.group;UNIX.mode;
Antwort: MFMT
Antwort: MLST modify*;perm*;size*;type*;unique*;UNIX.group*;UNIX.groupname*;UNIX.mode*;UNIX.owner*;UNIX.ownername*;
Antwort: PBSZ
Antwort: PROT
Antwort: RANG STREAM
Antwort: REST STREAM
Antwort: SIZE
Antwort: SSCN
Antwort: TVFS
Antwort: UTF8
Antwort: 211 End
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hkrackau

Well, I found the reason for that weird behaviour. There was a mismatch of character sets while extracting the files from an archive. I fixed that and now FreeFileSync works fine. Thanks a lot for your patience.