Echoing Unicode in batch scripts?

[tomasz86]

There's a text file:

عربي中文(简体)繁體中文版本češtinaελληνικάעִבְרִית日本語한국어portuguêsрусскийTürkçe

I'd like to echo these lines to another file.

This obviously doesn't work:

FOR /F %%A IN (test.txt) DO ECHO %%A

I've searched in the Internet and tried several different methods, including changing the code page go 65001, changing the CMD font to Arial Unicode, changing code page of the text file itself and others. None of them worked though.

Above is just a list of these different language names but normally they appear in many different places in the text file and are surrounded by other text. They may also appear next to each other.

Is there any method proved to work in this case? I don't mind using 3rd party tools if necessary.

Edited February 6, 2014 by tomasz86

[Yzöwl]

There may be a way to output it from a script but it would be very specific and not generic.

it would very likely that the method would not be easily transferrable in a different scenario later

[Guest]

ss64.com shows an example of using the TYPE command to do something like this.

Edited February 6, 2014 by 5eraph

[jaclaz]

changing the CMD font to Arial Unicode

How?

I thought that Fonts to be available in CMD console need to have a given set of attributes :

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/141893-fonts-in-console-window/

jaclaz

[tain]

I could have sworn that I had a solution to this somewhere but it might have involved AHK. WIll have to research some past efforts when I get some free time. In the meantime, I hereby subscribe to this thread

Note: I seem to recall one issue I had was that I got a script to work but didn't realize it because the text viewer I was using (actually a file explorer at the time) wasn't properly displaying the unicode chars in the first place. So, yeah...check the obvious stuff first