Take the tour ×  I have a problem when executing a "type"
command on a file that containg regional characters. Although i
can see the file properly with notepad or any other editor, when
i try the command "type file" from the command line the regional
characters are shown incorrectly.  I've tried executing chcp 850
or chcp 1250 but doesn't work. Executing cmd.exe /u doesn't work
either.  Can u help me please? Thanks  share|improve this
question add comment  2 Answers  Code page  You should set the
code page used in the `chcp' command should match the encoding
used in the file.  If Notepad recognises the file, it must be in
one of the encodings that Notepad recognises:    • ANSI
................. Usually Windows Latin-1, code page 1252.   •
Unicode .............. UTF-16 Little Endian with Byte Order Mark
(BOM).   • Unicode Big-endian ... UTF-16 big-endian with BOM.
• UTF-8................. UTF-8 with BOM.  So, if the file was
encoded in UTF-8 Unicode, you could use chcp 65001  As barlop
commented below: "UTF