MODE and FORMAT - TD Utilities. - response (3) by Raj kumar T

Thanks a bunch for your response raja and dnoeth.
I had a chance to look at those manuals. and I found
The default FORMAT is FASTLOAD.
BINARY format is a two-byte integer, followed by data.
TEXT format is an arbitrary number of bytes followed by an end-of-record marker.
UNFORMAT format is exactly as received from CLIv2 without any client modifications.
Here comes my next question, My table has VARCHAR, SMALLINT, DATE and INTEGER as data types. When I try to execute my fast export script with MODE RECORD FORMAT TEXT. My output file consumes unidentified things like "Ã^]{^C^@^@^@^@D".
I could understand if my table has only char data type FORMAT TEXT will work fine.
But what's the correct MODE and FORMAT for table which is having different data types ?
The above question is related to mode and format, So I've posted here. If needed I can post as a new topic. Please advice.
 
Thanks,
Raj kumar T