From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2012-05-19T17:29:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby- puts with accents

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Mariano José G. <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> # encoding: utf-8
> `chcp 852` #change cmd encoding to unicode

Codepage 852 isn't the Unicode codepage - it's MSDOS Latin-2 which
isn't even ISO 8859-2 - see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_852.

According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317756(v=vs.85).aspx
the codepage for UTF-8 is 65001.

You should be able to set the codepage with

  chcp 65001

then just output your UTF-8 strings without having to convert them as
long as you have the

  # encoding: utf-8

line near the top of your script.

I'm afraid I can't test this at the moment as I don't have access to a
Windows machine.

Regards,
Sean