Good day. This fall I had to solve this problem. For the conversion, I wrote the ZDev tool. (https://github.com/MyasnikovIA/ZDev). Maybe someone will need. The whole project is in %ZDev.xml (in the project there is an example of copying the global %ZDev.Demo.demo5CopyGlobal). Briefly about the principle of operation: A socket server is started on the remote database, the target client connects and executes the ZW ^MyGlobal.tab command, and then reads the result and restores locally, with a change in the encoding $ZCVT(...). The same action can be done through uploading to a file, but for me this mechanism was unacceptable, since the base for which this tool was written exceeds two terabytes.