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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?

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chcp 65001 worked nice for me. Programs that are not utf-8 will output a big mess, of course. – Havenard Sep 3 '09 at 0:23
Did you try non ascii letters? – Shore Sep 3 '09 at 0:26

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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.

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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

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