I'm switching hosting providers.

I am transferring my php files from old server to new server using command line ftp (I know, this is ancient, but it works for me)

When I get all of the files on the new server, all of the apostrophes (') are changed to some weird looking control chars.

I tried transfer in binary and ascii modes.

What can I try next?

Thanks

Convert all the files to utf-8 first. Then stop using Dreamweaver/Microsoft whatever to code a page and use notepad.

Then stop using Dreamweaver/Microsoft whatever to code a page and use notepad.

I use vi

Those characters are 16 bit, they are the curved ones, not the straight. (I had this happen before)

Use scp if you have shell access to your servers.

I'd say use scp AND tar.

Scp is threadless, and copy 1 file after the other, redoing a negotiation for each files.
If you tgz your files, you will transfer them much faster, as the negotiation will be done only once.

That, and scp cannot copy files recursively, or I messad the option in "man scp".

You will be surprised.

-r      Recursively copy entire directories.

Also you can say -C to scp to enable compression. It uses the same compression algo that is used by gzip, so in this case you will not have to compress your tar on source and decompress it on target.