Special characters in batch file

ringo747 · 3 Dec 2012 at 19:27

Hi, I'm using a batch file that does some uploading of files to a SharePoint library.

Some of the urls contain special characters like 'í'. How can I ensure that these characters are parsed correctly in a batch file? Currently they are rendering really strangely. File encoding is ASCII in my .bat file.

lordhughes · 4 Dec 2012 at 09:22

I don't think character is in the standard ASCII set.

Have you tried with unicode or will that break too much stuff?

ringo747 · 4 Dec 2012 at 09:52

I thought I read somewhere that batch files won't work as unicode.

AMMUT · 4 Dec 2012 at 13:25

This might help http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1259084/what-encoding-code-page-is-cmd-exe-using

ringo747 · 4 Dec 2012 at 13:37

I tried different chcp codes last night but didn't have any luck. I guess I need to rewrite my tool so we can avoid using batch files.