Saving 'tree /f /a" results to a textfile with unicode support

Question

I\'m trying to use the tree command in a windows commandline to generate a text file listing the contents of a directory but when I pipe the output the unicode characters get st

Answer 1

If you output as non-Unicode (which you apparently do), you have to view the text file you create using the same encoding the Console window uses. That's why it looks correct in the console. In some text editors, you can choose an encoding (or "code page") when you open a file. (How to output as Unicode I don't know. cmd /U doesn't do what the documentation says.)

The Console encoding depends on your Windows installation. For me, it's "Western European (DOS)" (or just "MS-DOS") in Microsoft Word.