How Do I COPY a file with special characters in the filename in a .BAT file?

Question

I am generating a .BAT file containing nothing but COPY commands to move some files around.

Here is an example working command:

COPY "C:\TEST.PDF" "D:\TEST.PDF"

Here is an example that isn't working:

COPY "C:\édf.pdf" "D:\édf.pdf"

Can I copy this file using a windows batch file? Or do I have to rewrite my script in a language like PERL?

related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7584423/problem-running-bat-cmd-file-with-accented-characters-in-it — tenfour, Nov 08 '12 at 15:51
Nevermind all, thank you. My bat file wasn't encoded properly. Those special characters were lost inside the .bat file during the file's creation. — Blaise Swanwick, Nov 08 '12 at 15:55

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 08 '12 at 16:02

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The examples I gave do work. I noticed that inside my .BAT file those special characters were getting lost because of the .BAT file's encoding.

answered Nov 08 '12 at 16:02

Blaise Swanwick

was there a workaround to use the special characters, or did you use regular ASCII instead? – Lizz Nov 10 '12 at 07:40
You know, I couldn't say what the workaround was. How I was generating the .bat file was just outputting the COPY commands to the browser via a coldfusion server. I then copied those commands to a notepad and saved it. I presume it was because I saved the .bat file as ANSI format. When I saved the file using CFFILE with UTF8 encoding, it worked. – Blaise Swanwick Nov 12 '12 at 13:38

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