chcp 65001 and a .bat file

Question

I have a problem with chcp 65001 command in Windows shell.

I need to generate a list of files in a folder. So I ran cmd.exe, typed

cd folder         


        

Answer 1

Tested on Windows 7 only, may not work on Windows Vista.

Apparently chcp doesn't affect dir directly.

Parse the output of dir and print it via echo:

chcp 65001
>list_of_files.txt (for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /B /O:N') do echo %%a)

Note: the output file won't have UTF-8 Byte Order Mark.