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[gkovacsp]

This is most probably not a slimmgbpvr problem, but I can't find a solution and couldn't find a help anywhere.

I export the currently recorded show's title into a textfile. Since I live in Hungary the titles will have hungarian characters in them.
Example file content:

Code:

Kikötő - Háttér

If I read this file with the following command:

Code:

@for /f "usebackq tokens=1 delims=§" %%G IN ("C:\lock-recording.txt") DO SET show=%%G

then Echo it to the screen:

Code:

echo %show%

then I'll have some garbled text printed:

Code:

KikA6tA - HA!ttA)r

So I'm just wondering if anyone have a solution for this... To see the same on the screen as in the file.

I know it is a character codepage problem, but don'T know the solution.

I Use a hungarian Windows XP.

Thanks in advance!

[K.S.]

i doubt you'll be able to change the output. GBPVRCli is using the ANSI codepage used by windows. i could not find a way to change that under DOS. chcp should change the codepage under DOS, you might search with google for a solution

[gkovacsp]

i doubt you'll be able to change the output. GBPVRCli is using the ANSI codepage used by windows. i could not find a way to change that under DOS. chcp should change the codepage under DOS, you might search with google for a solution

I've tried CHMOD, but couldn't figure out the right way...

[Mister Slimm]

Does the text file contain the correct text if you open it in a text editor or word processor?

[gkovacsp]

Everything is fine then. I see the funky hungarian characters correctly.

Only if I echo its content to the screen using the above described command, I get crap instead of the hungarian letters.

[Mister Slimm]

As the text in the file is fine, this means that GBPVRcli is working okay.

What happens if you '@TYPE' the file to the screen instead of using the FOR loop. It's probably the FOR loop that is causing the problems.

You can use GBPVRcli to format the output however you want.

To change the codepage use the command CHCP. The codepages for Hungary are 852 or 850, eg, 'CHCP 852'. Typing in CHCP without any arguments tells you the current codepage.

[gkovacsp]

To change the codepage use the command CHCP. The codepages for Hungary are 852 or 850, eg, 'CHCP 852'. Typing in CHCP without any arguments tells you the current codepage.

As I stated at the top I'm not blaming gbpvrcli, it is just a problem, which came up in my process of printing the data to the screen, or sending it through MSN as status message.

I'll give some more tries to the TYPE command tonight, thank you for your attention.

[K.S.]

As I stated at the top I'm not blaming gbpvrcli, it is just a problem, which came up in my process of printing the data to the screen, or sending it through MSN as status message.

I'll give some more tries to the TYPE command tonight, thank you for your attention.

if that's your only sorrow: do it via vbs ;-)
the following bat & vbs would read your file & generate a messagebox. replace the messagebox with your desired action
tested with german umlaut

test.bat

Code:

wscript c:\temp\test.vbs

test.vbs

Code:

Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\temp\test.txt", ForReading)

strText = objFile.ReadAll
objFile.Close

Wscript.Echo strText

[gkovacsp]

Neither of the above methods seems to work for me, it looks I have to live with the garbled text or fleed to a country, which uses the western codepage

I've attached the text file created by GBPVRCLI.

If I echo that to a console I get the strange characters.

I figured out, that the file is utf-8 encoded, so if I open it in a regular text editor it will recognize it correctly and displays correctly.

If I read it into a BAT file and echo to the screen, life is not so sunny any more.

Code:

@for /f "usebackq tokens=1 delims=§" %%G IN ("C:\lock-recording.txt") DO SET show=%%G
echo %show%

If anyone has any time to waste on it, then thanks a lot in advance.

[K.S.]

Neither of the above methods seems to work for me, it looks I have to live with the garbled text or fleed to a country, which uses the western codepage

what's wrong with my workaround using vbs? i've tried your text, it's working on my machine see attached screenshot

i've used the following batch

Code:

@for /f "usebackq tokens=1 delims=§" %%G IN ("C:\temp\test.txt") DO SET show=%%G
echo %show%

wscript c:\temp\test.vbs