"Dir >myfile.txt" on command prompt: Umlaute and special chars are NOT written correctly to file?

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When I type in a command prompt on a Win2000/WinXP the well known "dir" command
and redirect the output to a file I got a problem.

I have files in the directory with german umlaute (öäü). When the output is shown at the
command prompt (stdout) they are displayed correctly. But when I open the created text file with
the file listing they are not displayed correctly (e.g. in Notepad or other editors).

Why ?

Do I have to switch an option ?

Is there 3rd party tool which is able to write the filenames correctly to the file ?

Wolfgang

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Type CMD/U and press [Enter]

Now you will be able to output Unicode characters.

Austin M. Horst

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