Using non-ASCII characters in a cmd batch file

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.