Windows modifies the CMD character set

In a Chinese Windows System, if a text file is UTF-8 encoded, the contents of the file are not displayed correctly in the CMD.exe command-line window (the so-called DOS window). By default, the code page used in the command-line window is Chinese or American, that is, the encoding is the Chinese character set or the western character set.

If you want to display the UTF-8 characters correctly , you can follow these steps:

1 , open the CMD.exe command-line window

2 , change the code page by chcp command, UTF-8 code page 65001

Chcp 65001

After you do this, the code page becomes UTF-8 . However, the UTF-8 character is still not displayed correctly in the window.

3 , modify window properties, change font

Right-click on the command line title bar, select Properties, font, modify the font to True type "Lucida Console", and then click OK to apply the attribute to the current window.

You can then use the Type command to display the contents of the UTF-8 text file:

Type filename.txt

4 , through the above operation does not completely solve the problem, because the content displayed may not be complete. You can minimize and then maximize the command-line window, and the contents of the file are fully displayed.

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chcp with command:

Features: Show or set the active code page number

CHCP [nnn]

nnn Specifies the code page number.

type CHCP without parameters to display the active code page number.

nnn Specifies an existing system character set that is defined in the Config.sys file by the country command.

The code page can be set by the mode command under DOS.

Select code page: MODE con[:] CP select=yyy

code page Status: MODE con[:] CP [/status]

Press Windows+r , and then enter CMD or command to open the prompt.

For example, input: Mode con cp select=936, which means simplified Chinese is displayed. If you enter mode con cp select=437, it shows MS-dos American English, and the Chinese display will be?.

MS-DOS provides character sets for the following countries and languages:

Code page description

1258 Vietnamese

The language of 1257 Baltic

1256 Arabic

1255 Hebrew

1254 Turkish

1253 Greek

1252 Latin 1 characters (ANSI)

1251 Cyrillic

1250 Central European language

950 Traditional Chinese

949 Korean language

　　936 Simplified Chinese (default)

932 Japanese

874 Thai language

850 Multi-lingual (MS-DOS Latin1)

437 MS-DOS American English