Re: UTF-8 Vs UTF-16

I think you have understood something wrong. SAP PI tries to transform the encoding of the file to UTF-8. Therefore, you apply the source encoding to the channel. When your source file has encoding UTF-8, it does not make sense to put any other value here. If you want to receive a UTF-16 file, you can use a receiver file adapter and put the target encoding as UTF-16, that will work.