Curl encoding issues with command line

Question

When i try to download the content of websites with special characters like ï, curl returns strange characters. For example when i execute the following from the command line:

curl.exe --GET "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ge%C3%AFnteresseerd"

the (partial) response is:

...wgPageName":"geÃ¯nteresseerd","wgTitle":"geÃ¯nteresseerd",....

the problem is Ã¯ should be ï. Is there anyway to solve this issue? Do i need to re-encode the response?

This is due to handling of unicode characters in a DOS prompt, see stackoverflow.com/questions/388490/… — Hans Z.
– Hans Z., Commented Jan 14, 2015 at 10:50

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:07:26Z

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This is due to handling of unicode characters in a DOS prompt, see Unicode characters in Windows command line - how?. You should be able to change this behavior by using a command like chcp 65001 to set the terminal up for UTF-8 handling.

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