In cmd.exe with codepage 437, why are characters whose "number" is greater than 127 prepended with a ┬ when using type?

Question

I have a file that contains some characters whose "number" is greater than 127. If I use type file.txt to display the content of the file in a cmd.exe console whose code page (chcp) is set to 437, these characters are prepended with a ┬ character. I don't understand why this is and if there is a possibility to turn that off.

Answer 1

In codepage 437 the glyph ┬ is assigned to hex 0xC2 / dec 194.

I did remember that some UTF8 2 byte encodings start with 0xC2 so the conclusion the text is in this encoding was obvious to me.

To display UTF8 in cmd you'll need Codepage 65001

chcp 65001