Bug cmd windows 10 encoding utf-8 input redirection

[carlos]

Hello, I found that internally cmd.exe interpret the content of a input redirection improperly.

I have this file encoded as utf-8:

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ñandú

If i run this command:

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chcp 65001
(set /p "content=") < in.txt
echo %content%

it output:

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nandu

It convert improperly the ñ to n and the ú to u.

[Squashman]

https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-redirection.html

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Unicode
The CMD Shell can redirect ASCII/ANSI (the default) or Unicode (UCS-2 le) but not UTF-8.
This can be selected by launching CMD /A or CMD /U

With the default settings a UCS-2 file can be converted by redirecting it (note it's the redirection not the TYPE/MORE command that makes the encoding change)
TYPE unicode.txt > asciifile.txt

European characters like ABCàéÿ will usually convert correctly, but others like £¥ƒ€ will become random extended ASCII characters: œ¾Ÿ?

[carlos]

I use the type command, and also for /f and all convert to the same "nandu" text.

Edit: I found that the problem was the font "Terminal", changing to font: "Lucida Console" show the correct characters.

Thus, seems that the syntax-redirection.html documentation should be updated, because, it accept redirection of utf-8 but the terminal font not display the characters correctly.