Batch files, umlauts and svn status

Hello!

I want to parse svn status output with a batch file on Windows 7 (and feed it back to svn diff and some other tools doing svn cat)

See the attached screen shot.

In plain text:
I run
        svn status

(Tortoise SVN 1.9.4 command line client) and it reports a file whose directory name contains umlauts.
If I use the default code page 437, the path is displayed fine.

I loop over the output with
        for /F "usebackq tokens=1,*" %i in (`svn status`) DO echo "%j" & dir "%j"
and the displayed path consists of graphical glyphs, and dir won't find it.

I switch to cp1252. svn status displays exactly the string seen the step before.

I loop over the output with
        for /F "usebackq tokens=1,*" %i in (`svn status`) DO echo "%j" & dir "%j"
and the filename is still displayed with weird graphics, but it is found.

If I loop over svn status output, obviously the encoding of umlauts changes in some mysterious way to code page 1252.
I can change the codepage to cp1252, but then the plain svn status output is garbled.

What am I seeing here?
What is the safest way to handle umlauts with svn in batch files?

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