Unicode in Windows command line

[StarGeek]

While looking for something completely different, I came across this StackOverflow answer.  Following the first few instructions, for the first time I was able to use accented and other characters without problems.

I created a path with an accented character and Cyrillic characters and set description with Cyrillic characters.  It worked perfectly.

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C:\>exiftool -P -overwrite_original -description="тестове" "Y:/!temp/ccccc/h/Côte d'Azur/тестове/Test4.jpg"
    1 image files updated

C:\>exiftool -g1 -a -s -description "Y:/!temp/ccccc/h/Côte d'Azur/тестове/Test4.jpg"
---- XMP-dc ----
Description                     : тестове

It might be Windows 10 only, though.

[Phil Harvey]

This looks very promising.  I'll try to remember this, and add it to the faq if it proves useful.

- Phil