Robocopy unilog output is gibberish

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Published on 2011-06-11T22:57:28Z Indexed on 2012/09/12 9:41 UTC
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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?

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