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pandoc: "No such file or directory" when converting file with Unicode characters in filename

Using the pandoc tool on Windows 11, I am trying to convert to HTML a Markdown file with Unicode characters in its name with the following command:

pandoc -f markdown_phpextra -o 'Ahoj sv─¢te.html' 'Ahoj sv─¢te.md'

But pandoc complains with the following error:

[WARNING] Could not deduce format from file extension
  Defaulting to html
pandoc.exe: svÄ>te.html': openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

Any ideas how to make pandoc understand the filenames containing Unicode characters correctly?

Solution

  • Executing the chcp 65001 command before running the pandoc command solved the issue. Thanks @tarleb for providing this suggestion.