http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2012/04/09/10291883.aspxThe question was simple enough: I have a cmd line tool. On French Windows its output is correct in the cmd window but when I redirect it to a file it is no longer good. I noticed that if I set the output encoding on the Console class explicitly toen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2012/04/09/10291883.aspx#10292374Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:04:22 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10292374Random832<p>Of course, this only works if you want to make a UTF-8 text file. If you want to make an OEM text file, leave it as CP_OEMCP. If you want to make an ANSI text file...</p> <p>Of course, if your output is to a pipe to a tool that expects OEM text, such as, I don&#39;t know, &quot;more&quot;, then you really do need it in CP_OEMCP. On balance it&#39;s probably best to have a specific option for making output files (in whatever encoding), use WriteConsoleW for console output, and just leave things alone if the output is a pipe.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10292374" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2012/04/09/10291883.aspx#10292083Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:51:30 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10292083Michael S. Kaplan<p>Ha!</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10292083" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2012/04/09/10291883.aspx#10291945Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:22:47 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10291945Claudia Lawrence<p>Thank you. &nbsp;That really opened the kimono for me. </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10291945" width="1" height="1">