In a Windows Console TSE session this tool can switch between the most-used western code pages: 437, 850, and 1252.
So if a text's characters look wrong, then you can on-the-fly try viewing the text with the other code pages.
Let me know if you would like me to add other ones.
For more info see:
https://ecarlo.nl/tse/ToolsAndExtensions.html#Chcp
Carlo