AFAIK, the default Windows console font may not work with encoding, other than OEM one. After performing `chcp' you may want to switch to `Lucida Console' or `Consolas'.
2010/10/31 Paul Maier <svn-u...@web.de>: > Hello David, > > thank you! I have added "chcp 1252" at the top of my script > and the result is strange. I attach a screen shot to this > mail - hopefully it makes through the list. > > With "chcp 1252" it's like this: > > 1. output on the console (black window) is same than before > > 2. When I copy the content out of the console into an > Elvis editor (vi for Windows; white window), then > the caracters I get in vi are not the ones that I've copied. > See screen shot. > More strange: The unreadable wrong characters on the console > turn into the right German umlauts in vi. > And the correct characters from the console turn into > black rectangles in vi. > > Paul. > > >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: David Huang [mailto:k...@azeotrope.org] >> Gesendet: Samstag, 30. Oktober 2010 22:05 >> An: users@subversion.apache.org >> Betreff: Re: Problem with code page on Windows XP SP3 >> >> >> 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...= >
