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    <p>I have a program I use to create a batch file. My problem is that the program's output is UTF-8 so as soon as any diacritical marks like é,à,ö,Ä are in my batch file it fails. It seems I can't figure out a way to convert my output to anything but UTF-8 in the program that creates the batch file. </p> <p>So I was thinking of creating two bach files. The actual one and another that converts the actual one from UTF-8 to ANSI (Windows Codepage 1252, or maybe cp 850) and then executes it after that. Of course I'd add a chcp xxxx as the first command of the actual batch file.</p> <p>So my question is is there an alternative to iconv on Windows - or how does one convert a UTF-8 text file to a windows codepage using a second batch file. Is there anything built into Win XP and up that I could use or is there a free and redistributable tool I might use for this?</p> <p>Note:</p> <pre><code>chcp 65001 </code></pre> <p>does not work for batch files.</p> <p><strong>EDIT 1:</strong></p> <p>on windows XP I created two batch files to test the first answer.</p> <p>1.bat encoded to UTF-8 without BOM contains:</p> <pre><code>chcp 1252 cd üöä </code></pre> <p>2.bat also encoded to UTF-8 without BOM - but without any special characters contains:</p> <pre><code>chcp 1252 type "1.bat" &gt;"ansi_file.bat" </code></pre> <p>The resulting ansi_file.bat created when one executes 2.bat will still be utf-8 encoded and not ansi encoded.</p> <p><strong>EDIT 2:</strong></p> <p>The mentioned reverse process works.</p> <pre><code>chcp 1252 echo ü &gt; ansi.txt cmd /u /c type ansi.txt &gt; unicode.txt </code></pre> <p>but neither of the following subsequent lines</p> <pre><code>cmd /a /c type unicode.txt &gt; back2ansi.txt type unicode.txt &gt; back2ansi_v2.txt </code></pre> <p>gets me back to ANSI. I tried this both on Win XP and Win 7. Can anyone help?</p> <p><strong>NOTE:</strong></p> <p>I'm aware of how to use the Windows Script Host and VBS. I'd like to avoid depending on the script host though. The VBS method is detailed here: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa368046%28v=vs.85%29.aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa368046%28v=vs.85%29.aspx</a></p> <p><strong>EDIT 3:</strong></p> <p>The text file created containing a unicode ü above is not utf-8</p> <p>The Windows unicode file is HEX:</p> <pre><code>FC 00 20 00 0D 00 0A 00 </code></pre> <p>UTF-8 without BOM would be HEX:</p> <pre><code>C3 BC 20 0D 0A </code></pre> <p>The VBS solution linked to only works with the unicode form but fails on the UTF-8 form. I need to convert UTF-8 to another code page so not even that one seems to work for me...</p>
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