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Sending accented characters to Clipboard from a batch file

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I’ve been trying to find a solution to this, but I wrote a basic program to automatically produce an “outage” report more or less, that I need copied into the clipboard so that I can paste it into a mainframe system. It needs to be in English and French, but the French accents are not copying properly… Is there anyway around this – to include the variables?

The output will basically be this le système ne (clipped out the rest).

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

This is that I have so far:

if "%SRSST%"=="n" (
    (
    echo                   ***  IMSNEWS ***
    echo.
    echo On Sunday, %DATEME% %DT%%DATEST% %DATEYR%, There will be no
    echo system outage.
) | Clip )else (
            echo                   ***  IMSNEWS ***
            echo.
            echo On Sunday, %DATEME% %DT%%DATEST% %DATEYR%, the system will not
            echo be available between %SRSST% - %SRSET% for regular
            echo weekly maintenance.
        ) | Clip
timeout /t 5
if "%SRSST%"=="n" (
    (
    echo                  ***  NOUVELLES ***
    echo.
    echo Le dimanche %DT% %DATEME%, %DATEYR%,  Il n'y aura pas
    echo d'interruption du système 
) | Clip )else (
            echo                  ***  NOUVELLES ***
            echo.
            echo Le dimanche %DT% %DATEME%, %DATEYR%, le système ne
            echo sera pas disponible entre %SRSST% - %SRSET% pour la
            echo maintenance hebdomadaire.
        ) | Clip

goto Menu

Answer

After further investigation the issue was strange – Using chcp 1252 In a test.cmd – would work…. but for some reason would not work in me larger batch file. (I have honestly no idea why as I copied the text code for code

:TST
@echo off
cls
chcp 1252
echo d'interruption du système | CLIP
pause
goto Menu

However I found that adding the line chcp 65001 Worked for everything.

:TST
@echo off
cls
chcp 65001
echo d'interruption du système | CLIP
pause
goto Menu

Hopes this helps out.