What's the code page of UTF-8?

Question

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?

chcp 65001 worked nice for me. Programs that are not utf-8 will output a big mess, of course. — Havenard, Sep 03 '09 at 00:23

score 13 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 20 '14 at 20:34

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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

edited Oct 20 '14 at 20:34

DavidPostill

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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 Sep 16 '12 at 22:40
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 Sep 16 '12 at 22:58
@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 Aug 12 '14 at 09:28

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 20 '17 at 09:51

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.

What's the code page of UTF-8?

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