On Oct 30, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Paul Maier wrote: > Hello, > > who has advice for the following problem on a DOS console of a Windows XP SP3 > machine. > "svn cat" doesn't display German umlaut characters (neither does Windows' > built in type command). > Whereas a "svn cat > b; cat b" (cat command comes from cygwin) displays > correctly.
I don't know if this will work, but you might try doing a "chcp 1252" before "svn cat". > C:...\yy>cat a > äöü ÄÖÜ ß § -- abcd1234 > C:...\yy>svn cat a > õ÷³ -Í_ ¯ º -- abcd1234 ä is at code point 0xE4 in CP1252. In your CP850, 0xE4 is õ ö is at code point 0xF6 in CP1252. In CP850, 0xF6 is ÷ etc...
