What's the code page of UTF-8?

My command prompt's default code page is 936.

I need to change it to UTF-8.

chcp 65001

The above doesn't work. What's the correct one?

utf-8

Shore

Posted 2009-09-03T00:20:30.930

Reputation:

1chcp 65001 worked nice for me. Programs that are not utf-8 will output a big mess, of course. – Havenard – 2009-09-03T00:23:04.457

Did you try non ascii letters? – None – 2009-09-03T00:26:54.567

Answers

In order for chcp 65001 to work, you must be using a TrueType font in the command prompt. One such font is Lucida Console.

To use Lucida Console:

Right click on the window title bar
Select Properties
Select the tab Font
Select Lucida Console
Press OK

Stephen Jennings

Posted 2009-09-03T00:20:30.930

Reputation: 21 788

@Synetech don't worry, the display is wrong, the characters are correct. cd ű is displayed at cd ?, but it still goes into the correct directory. – TWiStErRob – 2014-08-12T09:28:56.073

Unfortunately neither Lucida Console, nor Consolas seem to render non-ASCII characters correctly in the command-prompt (which makes me really nervous about handling files with such characters). :-( – Synetech – 2012-09-16T22:40:07.350

Oops, nevermind. It renders correctly (Chrome messed up the Unicode characters when it created the .URL file). My concern about how files with Unicode characters in their names stands. I worry that performing operations like copy or move would not work or worse, mess things up. I tried using the chcp command it complained about being unable to write to the device. I tried it again without the command and it worked. o.O – Synetech – 2012-09-16T22:58:48.410

Many people complain in different questions about the 65001 support in windows console. My particular solution was to use ISO-8859-1 code page (28591) instead of UTF-8. You might take a look at the Code Page Identifiers at MSDN to identify one that fits your character needs.

manuelvigarcia

Posted 2009-09-03T00:20:30.930

Reputation: 999