diff --git a/Lib/venv/scripts/nt/activate.bat b/Lib/venv/scripts/nt/activate.bat
index 126049f..da831bb 100644
--- a/Lib/venv/scripts/nt/activate.bat
+++ b/Lib/venv/scripts/nt/activate.bat
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 @echo off
 
 rem This file is UTF-8 encoded, so we need to update the current code page while executing it
-for /f "tokens=2 delims=:" %%a in ('"%SystemRoot%\System32\chcp.com"') do (
+for /f "tokens=2 delims=:." %%a in ('"%SystemRoot%\System32\chcp.com"') do (
     set "_OLD_CODEPAGE=%%a"
 )
 if defined _OLD_CODEPAGE (
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-04-10-04-35-31.bpo-34144._KzB5z.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-04-10-04-35-31.bpo-34144._KzB5z.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7b8ca82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-04-10-04-35-31.bpo-34144._KzB5z.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fixed activate.bat to correctly update codepage when chcp.com returns dots in output.
+Patch by Lorenz Mende.