diff -r 52d4a7f926b4 -r dab0af6882ee bookloupe/bookloupe.c
--- a/bookloupe/bookloupe.c	Thu May 30 18:33:44 2013 +0100
+++ b/bookloupe/bookloupe.c	Thu May 30 20:27:48 2013 +0100
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <ctype.h>
+#ifdef __WIN32__
+#include <windows.h>
+#endif
 #include <glib.h>
 #include <bl/bl.h>
 #include "HTMLentities.h"
@@ -235,6 +238,10 @@
 
 GTree *qword,*qperiod;
 
+#ifdef __WIN32__
+UINT saved_cp;
+#endif
+
 struct first_pass_results {
     long firstline,astline;
     long footerline,totlen,binlen,alphalen,endquote_count,shortline,dotcomma;
@@ -405,18 +412,35 @@
     {
 	utf8=g_utf8_normalize(contents,len,G_NORMALIZE_DEFAULT_COMPOSE);
 	g_set_print_handler(print_as_utf_8);
+#ifdef __WIN32__
+	SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);
+#endif
     }
     else
     {
 	utf8=g_convert(contents,len,"UTF-8","WINDOWS-1252",NULL,&nb,NULL);
 	g_set_print_handler(print_as_windows_1252);
+#ifdef __WIN32__
+	SetConsoleOutputCP(1252);
+#endif
     }
     g_free(contents);
     return utf8;
 }
 
+void cleanup_on_exit(void)
+{
+#ifdef __WIN32__
+    SetConsoleOutputCP(saved_cp);
+#endif
+}
+
 int main(int argc,char **argv)
 {
+#ifdef __WIN32__
+    atexit(cleanup_on_exit);
+    saved_cp=GetConsoleOutputCP();
+#endif
     running_from=g_path_get_dirname(argv[0]);
     parse_options(&argc,&argv);
     if (pswit[USERTYPO_SWITCH])