".bat" file isn't printing accents to a .txt file

When writing text containing accents (Unicode characters) to a text file using a Windows batch file, you might encounter encoding issues that prevent the accents from being displayed correctly in the text file. By default, the batch file uses the system's default encoding, which might not handle Unicode characters properly.

To ensure that accents are correctly written to the text file, you can specify the encoding explicitly. Here's how you can do it:

1. Create a batch file (e.g., write_accents.bat) with the following content:

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@echo off

echo Writing accents to file...



rem Set the output file path

set "outputFile=output.txt"



rem Write Unicode characters to the output file using UTF-8 encoding

echo é à ü > %outputFile%

echo File %outputFile% created successfully.



pause

1. Run the batch file by double-clicking it.

In this example, we explicitly specify the encoding as UTF-8 using the > %outputFile% redirection operator. This should allow you to write accents to the text file without encoding issues.

When you open the output.txt file, it should contain the accents correctly:

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é à ü

Keep in mind that text editors or console applications might display the accents differently depending on the encoding used. Make sure to choose an editor or viewer that supports UTF-8 encoding to see the accents correctly.