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I'm working on a .bat program, and the program is written in Finnish. The problem is that CMD doesn't know these "special" letters, such as Ä, Ö, Å.
Is there a way to make those work? I'd also like it if the user could use those letters too.
Part of my code:
@echo off
/u
title JustATestProgram
goto test123
:test123
echo Letters : Ää Öö Åå
pause
exit
When I open this file, the letters look like this:
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When working at the command line or with batch files, you must take one of two actions when you use strings that contain an ampersand. Either you must escape the ampersand by using the caret (^) symbol, or you must enclose the string inside quotation marks.
%% is needed in a script to avoid ambiguities. "When working at the command line (not in a batch script) there is no possibility of any batch file parameters %1, %2 etc so the logic above is not followed and hence FOR parameters on the command line only need a single %." See details. – dosentmatter. Feb 27, 2021 at 6: ...
%%i is simply the loop variable. This is explained in the documentation for the for command, which you can get by typing for /? at the command prompt.
Try putting this line at the top of the batch file:
chcp 65001
It should change the console encoding to UTF-8, and you should be able to read the file properly in the script after that.
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Theoretically you just need to use the /u (Unicode) switch:
c:\>cmd /u
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
c:\>echo Ä
Ä
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