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

In Windows, make sure that file format of the actual file is same as codepage of the console (cmd.exe). Swedish characters åäö are used commonly.

In editor (in this case) Notepad++ hit "Encode>Convert to ANSI"

In script (batchfile) run same codepage as the file (Microsoft's 1252 ANSI version), File:

chcp 1252
cd c:\My Folder\Filename_with_åäö-characters.txt

Now it should work.