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Common method is to change the code page to a 1252 in DOS, and store the batch file in ASCII. To switch to the Windows Codepage, use<br />
chcp 1252 &gt;nul<br />
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Common method is to change the code page to a 1252 in DOS, and store the batch file in ASCII. To switch to the Windows Codepage, use
chcp 1252 >nul




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Thanks Qlemo. However, when I insert the suggested string, the screen output remains the ASCII view of the Unicode characters. Any idea what I am missing?
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Thanks Qlemo. However, when I insert the suggested string, the screen output remains the ASCII view of the Unicode characters. Any idea what I am missing?

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I have the following batch to run Internet Explorer using RUNAS. I want to use Unicode characters to paint a box around some text echoed to the screen. I have tried Unicode, Unicode Big-Endian and UTF-8, but the output is hard to read. How do I set the displayed character set to be Unicode and not forced as ASCII, which looks terrible.<br />
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<pre><code id="code-314112">cmd /u /k
@echo off
echo     ****unicode characters here****
echo      DOMAIN\PWLAB password pattern is MmmYYYY (eg. May2009)
echo     ****unicode characters here****
runas /noprofile /env /user:domain\pwlab &quot;C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe http://website/topologybuilderweb/MainForm.aspx&quot;
pause</code></pre>
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I have the following batch to run Internet Explorer using RUNAS. I want to use Unicode characters to paint a box around some text echoed to the screen. I have tried Unicode, Unicode Big-Endian and UTF-8, but the output is hard to read. How do I set the displayed character set to be Unicode and not forced as ASCII, which looks terrible.



Executing a batch file with Unicode

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Microsoft DOS

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