Codepage 850 works, 65001 fails! There is NO response to “call foo.cmd”. internal commands work fine

Question

The question basically explains the problem.

I\'m using Windows XP Pro Service Pack 3
ComSpec=C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe
I launched the console via Star

Answer 1

The cause of this is when cmd.exe for windows xp internally call to the function MultiByteToWideChar using the argument dwFlags with the value 1. The documentation says this: "For UTF-8 dwFlags must be set to 0. Otherwise, the function fails".

A patch for it here: http://consolesoft.com/p/cmd-xp-65001-fix/index.html