Handbrake CLI with Unicode Filenames

[AutoJohn]

Greetings,

Using AutoIT I am trying to script some handbrake encoding but I'm running into an issue with file names which contain Unicode characters ( Win7 x64).

I am using FileFindNextFile to itterate through a directory for all the file names, then I build a batch file to do the actual rendering then wait for the bat to close using winexits.

 

EG:

When I come across a file like this with a Unicode character, the console window exits with an error with something like:

Quote

'n++' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

and handbrake itself sometimes give an error that it  can't read the file name if it gets that far.

Perhaps this is more of a DOS question than an AutoIT one but if there is something I could do to my code that would allow the  DOS box to process the file that would be awesome.

I'm not sure what I need to do to solve this problem. Could someone give me some pointers?
I'm trying to find a solution that does not rename the final file so as to not confuse my media center and other apps.

ExampleRenderFileScript_bat.txt

 

Thanks.

 

[jchd]

Maybe your DOS program will process Unicode filenames. If so switch the console to UTF8 (using the comand "chcp 65001") then pass Unicode (UTF8) to it. Write the .bat file in UTF8, of course.

[genius257]

Why use bat, and not Autoit with a combination of something like:

Run

and:

StdoutRead

 

[robertocm]

Sorry,  let my  share two references that i found useful for passing arguments from batch files with ñ characters or accents:

• Running BAT/CMD file with accented characters in it: easy solution using WordPad - Save As - Text document MS-DOS, and finally change the file extension to .bat
• Windows CMD Shell - using special symbols in batch file: