The only commands that work are DIR, FOR /F and TYPE, this allows reading and writing (UTF-16LE / BOM) files and filenames but not much else. There is still VERY limited support for unicode in the CMD shell, piping, redirection and most commands are still ANSI only.
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If you need full unicode support use PowerShell. The CMD Shell (which runs inside the Windows Console)ĬMD.exe only supports two character encodings Ascii and Unicode (CMD /A and CMD /U) So use a TrueType font like Lucida Console instead of the CMD default Raster Font. Unicode characters will only display if the current console font contains the characters. Java requires the-Dfile option: java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 * The 65000/1 code pages are encoded as UTF-7/8 to allow to working with unicode data in 7-bit and 8-bit environments, howeverĮven if you use CHCP to run the Windows Console in a unicode code page, many applications will assume that the default still applies, e.g. Programs that you start after you assign a new code page will use the new code page, however, programs (except Cmd.exe) that you started before assigning the new code page will use the original code page. When working with characters outside the ASCII range of 0-127, the choice of code page will determine the set of characters displayed.
This command is rarely required as most GUI programs and PowerShell now support Unicode. The default code page is determined by the Windows Locale.