Currently I'm running Windows 7 x64 and usually I want all console tools to work with UTF-8 rather than with default code page 850.
Running chcp 65001
in the command prompt prior to use of any tools helps but is there any way to set is as default code page?
Update:
Changing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage\OEMCP
value to 65001
appear to make the system unable to boot in my case.
Proposed change of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\Autorun
to @chcp 65001>nul
served just well for my purpose. (thanks to Ole_Brun)
more
command (it gives the misleading error messageNot enough memory.
) Opening the command-prompt with the/U
switch does not help.A
versions of Windows functions is broken. All code needs to be ported to use theW
versions.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage\OEMCP
is used as fallback for non-unicode (non-utf) environments, obviously you try to force it to a 'unicode', as you see it is controversal by definition. Windows hangs probably because some system stuff on boot depends on non-unicode charset to work.