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   JJ to Tom Del Rosso   
   Re: Windows console improovements   
   03 Aug 18 06:51:43   
   
   From: jj4public@vfemail.net   
      
   On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 09:27:58 -0400, Tom Del Rosso wrote:   
   >   
   > I wish they'd give it the ability to handle unicode.  Right now, if you   
   > have non-ANSI characters in a file name, then this won't work:   
   >   
   > for /f %%a in ('dir /b') do echo %%~za   
   >   
   > That's because DIR converts it to ANSI, replacing some characters with   
   > "?" so when you reference the variable, the name in the string doesn't   
   > exist.   
      
   This leads me to a question.   
      
   Is there a compatible CMD clone which don't have this problem?   
      
   The only one I could find is Take Command Console, but it's command   
   interpreter is not fully compatible with CMD.   
      
   ReactOS's CMD doesn't even support the /U switch.   
      
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