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JakeWi
JakeWi

Reputation: 1

Batch File Character Encoding on Windows Seven?

How do I know what character encoding to save a batch file as?

I've heard that windows uses difrent charset for cmd and GUIs.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3041

Answers (3)

orcmid
orcmid

Reputation: 2638

I think the question has to do with localization, e.g., for echo messages in a .bat file. (and not line-endings or anything like that)

The question for me is then how can a .bat file control being treated as UTF-8 and not the local default code page. Is there a cue to cmd.exe that will get that to work?

In scripts built and used in an international setting, this matters.

Upvotes: 0

cuixiping
cuixiping

Reputation: 25449

You can use chcp to display and config the active code page.

Show chcp usage:

C:\> chcp /?

Show current code page:

C:\> chcp

Config active code page (example):

C:\> chcp 437

Upvotes: 0

unclemeat
unclemeat

Reputation: 5207

It depends on the character set implemented by cmd.

C:\Users\>chcp
Active code page: 437

Code page 437 is (I believe) the default for Windows systems. It uses ASCII encoding, and the following character set:

Upvotes: 1

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