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       /CHARACTER_SET=

    This qualifier specifies which character set the file data belongs
    to, and instructs FTAM to encode the data accordingly.  For example,
    to copy file data of the Japanese character sets Kanji and Katakana,
    the user must supply the CHARACTER_SET= qualifier with the value
    JP_INTAP2.

    Default value:         No character set specified