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Even on Windows 7, can you do a "dir" and be able to see filenames that has unicode characters?

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Mar 15, 20266008 views
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This is somewhat related to question On Windows 7, dir or tree can't show unicode characters, even starting cmd with cmd /U Even on Windows 7, I found that the only way I can get unicode to go into a file is by the file will be in "Unicode" when I open in Notepad and try "Save As", and if I and ope…

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> cmd /U
> dir /B > files.txt

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Fix for: Even on Windows 7, can you do a "dir" and be able to see filenames that has unicode characters?

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This is a very old question, but all of the answers given here are wrong. You will never see Unicode output on the Windows command line (CMD.exe). The reason is that CMD cannot display Unicode. It can, however, display DBCS (Double-Byte Character Se…

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