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The default encoding for command prompt is Windows-1252. Change the code page (chcp command) to 65001 (UTF-8) first and then run your ... Home Public Questions Tags Users Companies Collectives ExploreCollectives Teams StackOverflowforTeams –Startcollaboratingandsharingorganizationalknowledge. CreateafreeTeam WhyTeams? Teams CreatefreeTeam Collectives™onStackOverflow Findcentralized,trustedcontentandcollaboratearoundthetechnologiesyouusemost. LearnmoreaboutCollectives Teams Q&Aforwork Connectandshareknowledgewithinasinglelocationthatisstructuredandeasytosearch. LearnmoreaboutTeams SavetextfileinUTF-8encodingusingcmd.exe AskQuestion Asked 9years,4monthsago Modified 2years,1monthago Viewed 51ktimes 34 IsitpossibletosaveatextfileinUTF-8encodingusingWindows'commandlinecmd.exe? CurrentI'mcreatingthetextfileusingcommandredirectionoperators: C:\Windows\system32\ipconfig/all>>output.log Istartwith>togetanewfileandthenIuse>>toappendmoreinformation. windowsencodingutf-8cmd Share Improvethisquestion Follow editedSep10,2020at6:49 MartinPrikryl 174k5151goldbadges431431silverbadges890890bronzebadges askedMay16,2013at22:51 user2333346user2333346 1,04344goldbadges1919silverbadges4040bronzebadges 4 3 IfyouareusingI/Oredirectionoperators,thenit'snotuptotheshellwhatthecharacterencodingofthedatais.It'suptothecommandwhoseoutputisredirected.IfthatcommandproducesvalidUTF-8,that'swhatwillendupinthefile. – Celada May17,2013at0:29 Imoipconfiguses"Unicode". – Endoro May17,2013at4:36 Itdoesn't.Likeallconsolemodeprograms,itgeneratestextinthedefault8-bitcodepageencodingthat'sactivefortheconsole.Whichyouchangetoutf-8withchcp65001.Youstillwon'tgetaBOM. – HansPassant May17,2013at10:03 2 cmd/u/c"ipconfig/all">>output.log??? – npocmaka May17,2013at18:46 Addacomment  |  2Answers 2 Sortedby: Resettodefault Highestscore(default) Trending(recentvotescountmore) Datemodified(newestfirst) Datecreated(oldestfirst) 47 ThedefaultencodingforcommandpromptisWindows-1252.Changethecodepage(chcpcommand)to65001(UTF-8)firstandthenrunyourcommand. chcp65001 C:\Windows\system32\ipconfig/all>>output.log Changeitbacktodefaultwhendone. chcp1252 Share Improvethisanswer Follow editedJun15,2015at0:33 SLaks 848k174174goldbadges18771877silverbadges19451945bronzebadges answeredAug6,2013at18:39 rchnrchn 93311goldbadge88silverbadges1010bronzebadges 2 Herearesomeothercodethatmaybeuseful – LordST Oct31,2015at21:55 1252mightnotbethedefaultcodepage.TheOEMcodepageisthedefault. – Anders Feb11,2017at14:55 Addacomment  |  4 Astheexistinganswersays,inabatchfile,youcanusethechcpcommand chcp65001>nul some_command>file Butifyouareusingthecmd.exefromitscommandline,e.g.toexecuteauser-definedcommand,youcanusethissyntax: cmd.exe/cchcp65001>nul&cmd.exe/csome_command>file Share Improvethisanswer Follow editedMar4,2018at13:21 answeredOct11,2016at13:47 MartinPrikrylMartinPrikryl 174k5151goldbadges431431silverbadges890890bronzebadges Addacomment  |  YourAnswer ThanksforcontributingananswertoStackOverflow!Pleasebesuretoanswerthequestion.Providedetailsandshareyourresearch!Butavoid…Askingforhelp,clarification,orrespondingtootheranswers.Makingstatementsbasedonopinion;backthemupwithreferencesorpersonalexperience.Tolearnmore,seeourtipsonwritinggreatanswers. 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