It's totally unclear why copying something from a site (an ftp-site is just a file server) should be necessary, nor what you should do with it, once copied. In fact, it's not even clear why you couldn't post the command lines here, or post a link to the place where you found someones advice.

The details of your problem (where's the Unicode coming in?) are missing also.

Wp and wp-config, on the sight of it, seem more like something for WordPerfect then for MS Word. So that part of the story isn't clear either.

Kees