I am trying to add user using batch file, I have used UTF-8 characters in username. I am trying below command net user Àdmin "sdf" /ADD /FULLNAME:Àdmin /COMMENT:"description" I observed that user added successfully but if i see local users then is shows Çdmin in place of Àdmin.

If I run the above command manually on cmd it is working as per expected but it is not working if i execute this command using bat file.

It looks like limitation of bat.

I have gone though few forums and found that this could be the problem of DOS version.

 

I am using 6.1.7600 DOS version.

Could anybody help on this.

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

Hi,

Just FYI, there is no DOS in Windows 7 (or any other flavor of NT, for that matter). You are talking about Cmd.exe, which is a Win32 console (text-mode) program.

IIRC, shell scripts (.bat or .cmd files) must be ASCII format. Unicode and UTF-8 text files are not supported.

Bill

• Proposed as answer by Bill_StewartModerator Thursday, June 23, 2011 6:55 PM

Use the chcp command to change the active code page:

@rem foo.bat

@echo off

chcp 1252

echo À



C:\> foo.bat

À

A complete list of code pages is published at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd317756(VS.85).aspx. I don't believe the command prompt works properly with Unicode code pages like UTF-8, but I'm probably wrong. In a quick test, I couldn't run batch files, regardless of the format, with the code page set to 65001 (UTF-8). Code page 1252 definitely displays "À" correctly. Hopefully, there are others in the forum with more experience with multilingual Windows systems.

• Proposed as answer by Trevor Scroggins Friday, June 10, 2011 12:26 AM
• Edited by Trevor Scroggins Friday, June 10, 2011 4:59 PM modified URL to use http://msdn... instead of http://technet...

I may not have answered your question, however, which involves three components: the batch file, the command processor, and the program interpreting the command line. The following commands in a batch file do produce a new account with the expected values on my test system:

chcp 1252
net user Àdmin "sdf" /ADD /FULLNAME:Àdmin /COMMENT:"description"

• Marked as answer by Richard MuellerMVP, Moderator Saturday, June 25, 2011 10:11 PM

Hi Bill,

 

Thanks for the response.

I am using Windows2008 R1 , R2 and Windows 2003 servers. Yes you are true i was talking about cmd.exe version.

Could you please guide me, How can I provide support to UTF-8 characters on bat file. I am wondering if there is way which Microsoft provide to support UTF-8 characters.

 

Thanks,

Dinesh

Hello,

Thanks for the response. Please look below screenshot.

 

I have created bat file and put the command , Now when i execute the bat file it is not able to understand UTF-8 character appropriately.

Could you please guide me, If there is any other way to handle it.

 

Thanks,

Dinesh

I am not able to paste screenshot here.but after using solution suggested by you ,its not working.

Could you please guide if there is any other way to do this.

 

Thanks,

Dinesh

• Edited by Dineshpatchmanagement Friday, June 10, 2011 6:18 AM test

Hi Dinesh,

The batch processor expects 8-bit ASCII files, not 16-bit UTF-8 files as created by Notepad and other applications. If you need to support scripts in a Unicode environment, I suggest using PowerShell.

chcp 65001 helped me to run UTF-8 batches

example for unicode character :

chcp 65001
C:\Tools\Code128\Code128Gen.exe 0 "aCLa" 2 D:\Out\128_N2T60_CL.bmp
C:\Tools\Code128\Code128Gen.exe 0 "aCLAa" 2 D:\Out\128_N2T60_CLA.bmp

Important:

if your .bat file begins with BOM mark, remove it (switch the encoding to "UTF-8 without BOM") otherwise the interpreter will complain about first line of your batch, for example:

C:\Tools\Code128>chcp 65001
'chcp' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

After some time, original UTF-8 batch file stopped working normally at commands which contained non-ascii characters. Commands were executed normally as before (producing correct output), but this misformatted message was shown at output of each:

C:\Tools\Code128>C:\Tools\Code128\Code128Gen.exeThe system cannot write to the specified device.

• Edited by Miroxlav Saturday, February 07, 2015 12:49 PM