How to properly output a string in a Windows console with go?

Question

I have a exe in go which prints utf-8 encoded strings, with special characters in it.
Since that exe is made to be used from a console window, its output is

Answer 1

The online book "Network programming with Go" (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) has a chapter on Charsets (Managing character sets and encodings), in which Jan Newmarch details the conversion of one charset to another. But it seems cumbersome.

Here is a solution (I might have missed a much simpler one), using the library go-charset (from Roger Peppe).
I translate an utf-8 string to an ibm850 encoded one, allowing me to print in a DOS windows:

éèïöîôùòèìë

The translation function is detailed below:

package main

import (
    "bytes"
    "code.google.com/p/go-charset/charset"
    _ "code.google.com/p/go-charset/data"
    "fmt"
    "io"
    "log"
    "strings"
)

func translate(tr charset.Translator, in string) (string, error) {
    var buf bytes.Buffer
    r := charset.NewTranslatingReader(strings.NewReader(in), tr)
    _, err := io.Copy(&buf, r)
    if err != nil {
        return "", err
    }
    return string(buf.Bytes()), nil
}

func Utf2dos(in string) string {
    dosCharset := "ibm850"
    cs := charset.Info(dosCharset)
    if cs == nil {
        log.Fatal("no info found for %q", dosCharset)
    }
    fromtr, err := charset.TranslatorTo(dosCharset)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal("error making translator from %q: %v", dosCharset, err)
    }
    out, err := translate(fromtr, in)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal("error translating from %q: %v", dosCharset, err)
    }
    return out
}

func main() {
    test := "éèïöîôùòèìë"
    fmt.Println("utf-8:\n", test)
    fmt.Println("ibm850:\n", Utf2dos(test))
}