Most tragically, I got several TFS team projects with an en dash in them.
If you are not familiar with en dash, open up MS Word and type in alt+8211.
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 ?.
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.
I make a file that holds the names of the projects and I feed them to my batch file.
But when it runs it puts ? in place of the –.
What can I do to keep my dash?
NOTE: I have two batch files. The First runs the second with params from a file.
My First one can be seen here. The second can be seen here. An example of the input file can be seen here.
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