Robocopy unilog output is gibberish

Question

I tried to get robocopy in Windows 7 to generate a Unicode log, since I have files with Unicode characters. The command I used:

robocopy C:\mysource D:\mydest /mir /unilog:backup.log /tee

File the copy works and the onscreen output is correct, the log file itself just contains gibberish. This is regardless of whether I use the Command Prompt or the Powershell.

What gives? Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

Are you sure you're not just opening it wrong? In Notepad, you may have to specify the opening type in the Open dialog for it to recognize the encoding properly.