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

Theoretically you just need to use the /u (Unicode) switch:

c:\>cmd /u
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c:\>echo Ä
Ä