title: Using "En Dash" in an input file to a batch file
body: <p>Most tragically, I got several TFS team projects with an en dash in them.</p>
  
  <p>If you are not familiar with en dash, open up MS Word and type in alt+8211.</p>
  
  <p>You will see a larger looking dash.  (Like this if it renders for you: –).  If you open notepad you will see a ? and if you try it in most Unicode editors you will see ‼.</p>
  
  <p>But I need it to be a dash.  Because I need to run a batch file against all my projects.  The paths to the projects now has this en dash in it.</p>
  
  <p>I make a file that holds the names of the projects and I feed them to my batch file.</p>
  
  <p>But when it runs it puts û in place of the –.</p>
  
  <p>What can I do to keep my dash?</p>
  
  <p>NOTE:
  I have two batch files.  The First runs the second with params from a file.</p>
  
  <p>My First one can be <a href="https://gist.github.com/967578#file_update_reports_in_all_projects.bat" rel="nofollow">seen here</a>.  The second can be <a href="https://gist.github.com/967583#file_update_report_in_project.bat" rel="nofollow">seen here</a>.  An example of the input file can be <a href="https://gist.github.com/967588#file_project_list.txt" rel="nofollow">seen here</a>.</p>